Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 75    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 100  Analyst: Dean, W.
Hole: 530A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   144.10
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   144.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   144.10

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           NANNOFOSSIL OOZE;


Leg : 75    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   80/ 100  Analyst: Dean, W.
Hole: 530A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   144.10
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   144.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   144.08

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           PEBBLES;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (8-10);

  Comments   : BASALT PEBBLES AT BASE OF NANNOFOSSIL OOZE;


Leg : 75    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 200  Analyst: Stow, D.
Hole: 530A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   334.20
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   334.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   334.00

LITHOLOGY: VOLCANIC BRECCIA;

  Texture    : BRECCIA, VARIETY OF VOLCANIC GLASSES;

  Structure  : THE MATRIX: SPARRY CALCITE CEMENT WITH GOOD CRYSTAL
               GROWTH INTO VOIDS, MICRITIC CEMENT(REPLACING
               GLASS ?);

  Alteration : VOLCANIC GLASSES SHOW ALTERATION, MICRITIC CEMENT
               COULD BE REPLACING VOLCANIC GLASS AND INCLUDES
               FORAMS AND RARE SHELL DEBRIS;

  Comments   : VOLCANIC BRECCIA MIXED WITH CLAYS, CLASTS CONSIST OF
               A BASALT FRAGMENT(VESICULAR, PHENOCRYSTS, GLASSY
               RIMS), AND A LARGE CRYSTALLINE FELDSPAR FRAGMENT AND
               A DOLOMITIC CLAST, POORLY SORTED VOLCANIC BRECCIA;

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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