Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg 81, hole 552
Physiographic feature:	plateau
Total penetration (m):	314
# sediment cores:	25
Oldest sediment core:	21
Oldest sediment age:	Lower Eocene
Oldest sediment description:	ferruginous diatomaceous claystone
Type of crust:	oceanic
# Rock cores:	4
Rock description:	basalt flow
Other holes at this site:	552A
Adjacent sites :	403 404 553 554
Data types available:

afd paleomagnetics	original	delimited	browse
age profile	original	delimited
algae	original	delimited	browse
benthic foraminifera	original	delimited	browse
carbon/carbonate	original	delimited
core depth recovery	original	delimited
density-porosity	original	delimited
dinoflagellates	original	delimited	browse
discrete sediment paleomagnetics	original	delimited	browse
gamma ray attenuation porosity evaluator	original	delimited
igneous/metamorphic rock descriptions	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock paleomagnetics	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock major-element chemistry	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock minor-element chemisty	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock thin section descriptions	original		browse
radiolaria	original	delimited	browse
SCREEN descriptions	original	delimited	browse
silicoflagellates	original	delimited	browse
site summary information	original	delimited
smearslide descriptions	original	delimited	browse
sonic velocity	original	delimited
visual descriptions	original	delimited	browse
water chemistry (interstitial)	original	delimited
x-ray mineralogy, bulk (WHOI)	original	delimited
x-ray mineralogy, clay fraction (WHOI)	original	delimited

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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