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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 250  Analyst: Hubberten, H.-W.
Hole: 506I  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    26.59
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    26.10
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    26.44

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE 16 (2-5), 17 (6-14), 18 (16-25);

  Texture    : APHYRIC BASALT, FINE-GRAINED;

  Alteration : PCE 16 IS SOMETIMES COATED WITH DUST OF GREENISH
               CLAY MINERALS;
               SLIGHTLY
               PCE 17, ALTERATION RIM ON PCE 17, GREENISH CLAY
               DISSEMINATED IN GNDMASS IN PCE 17;

  Comments   : PCE 16 IS NOT CUT;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,PYRITE
               VESICULAR, COATED WITH BLUISH-WHITE MINERALS,
               CALCITE GLASSY XTALS AND RED BROWN RIM, PYRITE
               FILLS AND COATS VESICLES, IN PCE 18 VESICLES ARE
               ALMOST EMPTY-SOME ARE FILLED WITH WHITE-GLASSY
               MINERAL;


    

Introduction


Cite as: Deep Sea Drilling Project (1989): Archive of Core and Site/Hole Data and Photographs from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V54M92G2 [access date]

These Web pages are from the Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 1-96 CD-ROM produced in 1989 and modified in 2000 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Geophysical Data Center (now part of the National Centers for Environmental Information), and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder (now part of the World Data Service for Geophysics). Data were compiled in cooperation with the U.S. Science Support Program, of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (now the Consortium for Ocean Leadership), and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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