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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg 89, hole 462A

Total penetration (m):1209
# sediment cores:17
Oldest sediment core:99
Oldest sediment age:Mesozoic
Oldest sediment description: volcanoclastic zeolitic mudstone
Type of crust:oceanic
Depth to basement (m): 1209
# Rock cores:11
Rock description:basalt sheet-flows
Other holes at this site:462  462A

Data types available:
age profile original delimited  
carbon/carbonate original delimited  
core depth recovery original delimited  
igneous/metamorphic rock
descriptions
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igneous/metamorphic rock
paleomagnetics
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igneous/metamorphic rock
major-element chemistry
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igneous/metamorphic rock
minor-element chemisty
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igneous/metamorphic rock
thin section descriptions
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site summary information original delimited  
smearslide descriptions original delimited browse
sonic velocity original delimited  

Related data in the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (doi:10.7289/V5H41PB8)

External link to borehole logging data at LDEO

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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