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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):   500       Sand: 060%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):     9.10    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     9.60    Clay: 060%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: CLAY FORAM NANNO RAD OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (13%);  MICA (35%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (40%);
FORAMINIFERA (13%);  NANNOFOSSIL (13%);



Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):   580       Sand: 060%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):     9.10    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     9.68    Clay: 060%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: FORAM NANNO CLAY RAD OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
MICA (35%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (40%);  CLAY MINERAL (19%);
FORAMINIFERA (13%);  NANNOFOSSIL (13%);



Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):  1200       Sand: 060%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):     9.10    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    10.30    Clay: 060%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: CLAY FORAM RAD NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (03%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (60%);  FORAMINIFERA (20%);
NANNOFOSSIL (40%);



Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):   500       Sand: 060%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):    69.50    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    70.00    Clay: 060%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: MANGANESE FORAM NANNO RAD OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
MANGANESE (10%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (45%);  FORAMINIFERA (17%);
NANNOFOSSIL (27%);



Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand: 035%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):    69.50    Silt: 035%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    70.25    Clay: 035%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM RAD NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (70%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);  NANNOFOSSIL (67%);



Leg :  9    Top Int Depth(mm):  1250       Sand: 060%   Sect:  1
Hole:  79A  Top Core Depth(m):    69.50    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    70.75    Clay: 060%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM NANNO RAD OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (50%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);  NANNOFOSSIL (35%);
RADIOLARIA (45%);



    

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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