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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 84    Top Int Depth(mm):  1420       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 567   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 015%
Core: H 1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.92    Clay: 080%

Age : CENOZOIC
Name: DIATOMACEOUS MUD M QTZ 5,FEL 1,HVY.MINS 2,CLAY 67,GLAUC 3/N DETRITIC,PYR

Components:  (, % converted from relative abundance)
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NANNOFOSSIL (02%);  DIATOM (10%);  RADIOLARIA (05%);
SPICULE (03%);  SILICOFLAGELLATE (02%);



Leg : 84    Top Int Depth(mm):  1380       Sand: 005%   Sect:  3
Hole: 567   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 015%
Core: H 1   Sample Depth (m) :     4.38    Clay: 080%

Age : CENOZOIC
Name: DIATOMACEOUS MUD M QTZ 10,FEL 5,HVY.MINS 2,CLAY 50,VOLC.GLAS TR, GLAUC 3

Components:  (, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
NANNOFOSSIL (02%);  DIATOM (20%);  RADIOLARIA (05%);
SPICULE (05%);



Leg : 84    Top Int Depth(mm):  1420       Sand: 080%   Sect:  4
Hole: 567   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 005%
Core: H 1   Sample Depth (m) :     5.92    Clay: 005%

Age : CENOZOIC
Name: SAND (MAINLY TUFFACEOUS ORIGIN) M QTZ 50,FEL 20,HVY.MINS 5,CLAY 7/N LITH
Name: IC FRAG, GLAUC 10,PYR 5

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
FORAMINIFERA (03%);  DIATOM (02%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 84    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand: 015%   Sect:  6
Hole: 567   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 025%
Core: H 1   Sample Depth (m) :     8.90    Clay: 060%

Age : CENOZOIC
Name: CALCAREOUS SILTY SANDY MUD M QTZ 15,FEL 5,HVY.MINS 2,CLAY 37,VOLC.GLAS 3

Components:  ()
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NANNOFOSSIL (25%);  DIATOM (03%);  RADIOLARIA (01%);
SPICULE (01%);

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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