Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 89    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1410/1440  Describer: Floyd, P.
Hole: 585   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   686.10   Rock Type: SEDIMENTARY
Core:  48   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   687.53   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = LITHIC-VITRIC TUFF
       SOURCE IS IR, ALTERATION-ZONED GREEN PALAGONITE
       SHARDS WITH PLAG AND CPX PHENOS, FEW PLAG PHYRIC
       LITHICS*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE

             CLINOPYROXENE

Alteration - PALAGONITE




Leg : 89    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  170/ 210  Describer: Floyd, P.
Hole: 585   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   713.50   Rock Type: SEDIMENTARY
Core:  51   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   720.73   Sect/Pc #: CC/

ROCK = LITHIC-VITRIC TUFF
       SOURCE IS IR, ALTERATION-ZONED YELLOW TO BROWN
       VESICULAR PALAG SHARDS, FEW LITHICS, MUCH SMEC
       MATRIX*

Alteration - PALAGONITE




Leg : 89    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  580/ 620  Describer: Floyd, P.
Hole: 585   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   741.00   Rock Type: SEDIMENTARY
Core:  54   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   743.10   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = CRYSTAL-LITHIC LAPILLISTONE
       SOURCE IS IR, CPX MEGACRYSTS, LITHICS MAINLY
       MICROPHYRIC GLASSY BASALTS AND TACHYLITE WITH CPX
       AND PLAG PHENOS*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE

             CLINOPYROXENE

Groundmass - GLASS

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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