Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   67.00    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   68.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.41/ 77            129
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH OPAQUE MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY          
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   68.50    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   70.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.28/ 85            129
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : DETRITAL SEDIMENT.                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   70.00    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   71.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1         2        97       1.33/ 82            121
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : DETRITAL SEDIMENT.                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   71.50    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   73.00    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         1        99       1.51/ 71            129
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                         
Screen Lith    : DETRITAL SEDIMENT.                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   73.00    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   74.50    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.60/ 66            130
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : OPAQUE MINERAL RICH CLAY                                    
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 700  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   74.50    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   75.20    Age: 
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.70
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : OPAQUE MINERAL RICH CLAY                                    
 
 
 
Leg : 91    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 250  Age: 
Hole: 596A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   75.31    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   75.56    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     10        10       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : METALLIFEROUS PELAGIC CLAY                                  
Screen Lith    : PELAGIC CLAY

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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