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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   200       Sand: 010%   Sect:  1
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.20    Clay: 030%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: FORAM NANNO BEARING CLAYEY SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (15%);  FORAMINIFERA (40%);  NANNOFOSSIL (15%);
DIATOM (05%);  SPICULE (05%);  IRON (05%);
RADIOLARIA (02%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand: 010%   Sect:  3
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 010%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     3.75    Clay: 080%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: SILTY CLAY BEARING CLAYEY SILT

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  GLAUCONITE (05%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);
NANNOFOSSIL (50%);  SPICULE (30%);  PLANT DEBRIS (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand: 010%   Sect:  1
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):     4.50    Silt: 010%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :     5.25    Clay: 080%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (20%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (05%);  GLASS (05%);
NANNOFOSSIL (50%);  FORAMINIFERA (06%);  DIATOM (05%);
SPICULE (15%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand: 010%   Sect:  5
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):     4.50    Silt: 010%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    11.25    Clay: 080%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: FORAM NANNO SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  CLAY MINERAL (60%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);
NANNOFOSSIL (25%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):  1250       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    14.10    Silt: 010%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    16.85    Clay: 090%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  CLAY MINERAL (45%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (05%);
FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (40%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   500       Sand: 010%   Sect:  1
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    23.70    Silt: 010%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    24.20    Clay: 080%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO ASH BEARING SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (30%);  GLASS (30%);  PALAGONITE (06%);
FORAMINIFERA (10%);  NANNOFOSSIL (30%);  SPICULE (30%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    23.70    Silt:
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    25.00    Clay:

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: FORAM-NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  CLAY MINERAL (25%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);
NANNOFOSSIL (40%);  SPICULE (10%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 010%   Sect:  2
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    23.70    Silt: 030%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    26.50    Clay: 060%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO FORAM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  FELDSPAR (05%);  FORAMINIFERA (20%);
NANNOFOSSIL (60%);  SPICULE (05%);  PLANT DEBRIS (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand: 005%   Sect:  4
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    23.70    Silt: 040%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    28.95    Clay: 045%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO BEARING CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (30%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (30%);
DIATOM (05%);  SPICULE (30%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand: 005%   Sect:  6
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    23.70    Silt: 030%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    31.60    Clay: 065%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO OOZE AND CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (30%);  GLASS (05%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (05%);
FORAMINIFERA (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    33.30    Silt: 005%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    35.60    Clay: 090%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO BEARING SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  CLAY MINERAL (40%);  GLASS (05%);
FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (40%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   450       Sand: 005%   Sect:  3
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    33.30    Silt: 090%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    36.75    Clay:

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: VOLCANIC ASH

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  GLASS (90%);  PALAGONITE (05%);



Leg : 90    Top Int Depth(mm):   750       Sand:        Sect:  5
Hole: 594B  Top Core Depth(m):    33.30    Silt:
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    40.05    Clay:

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO AND SPICULE BEARING CLAYEY OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  GLAUCONITE (05%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);
NANNOFOSSIL (50%);  SPICULE (25%);

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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