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Leg : 92    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  480/ 510  Describer: Goldberg, D.
Hole: 599B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    40.80   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    42.80   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT
       POSSIBLY TRANSITIONAL TO FERROBASALT;
       Texture: APHYRIC, INTERGRANULAR;
       Where sampled: X-SECTION OF PIECE WITH FRESH INTERIOR - ALTERED

ROCK = *

Groundmass - OLIVINE                   (  1-5%)
             Size(mm):        0.1  Morphology: EQUANT GRAINS
             RIMMED BY IDDINGS AS APPROACH ALTERED ZONE, IN
             ALTERED ZONE COMPLETELY REPLACED;

             PLAGIOCLASE               (45-50%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.2  Morphology: ACICULAR
             SIZE RANGE IS FOR LENGTH;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (45-50%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.2  Morphology: GRANULAR, FEATHERY

             MAGNETITE                 (  1-5%)
             Size(mm): 0.005-0.01
             DISSEMINATED WITHIN AND BETWEEN CPX GRAINS*

Alteration - IDDINGSITE                (  1-5%)
             Location: OUTER RIM      Replacing: OL
             REPLACES UP TO 100% OL PSEUDOMORPHS*




Leg : 92    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  120/ 150  Describer: Goldberg, D.
Hole: 599B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    43.80   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   4   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    43.94   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 2

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT
       POSSIBLY TRANSITIONAL TO FERROBASALT;
       Texture: APHYRIC, INTERGRANULAR (TO SUBSPHERULITIC IN
       Piece #: ES);
       Where sampled: ACROSS PIECE WITH ALTERED RIM AND FRESHER
       INTERIOR, ALTERED BANDS CONCENTRIC TO OUTER ZONE*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (   <1%)
             Size(mm):     1.3X.4  Morphology: LATH
             ONLY ONE, TWINNED*

Groundmass - OLIVINE                   (   <1%)
             ALMOST ALL ALTERED;

             PLAGIOCLASE               (40-45%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.2  Morphology: ACICULAR
             SOME PLAG + CPX FORM SUBSPHERICAL CLUSTERS;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (50-55%)
             Size(mm):       0.15  Morphology: GRANULAR TO DENDRITIC
             SOME CPX ARE CLOUDY;

             MAGNETITE                 (  1-5%)
             Size(mm):       <0.1  Morphology: SKELETAL, GRAINS
             DISSEMINATED IN AND AROUND CPX*

Alteration - IDDINGSITE                (  5-7%)
             Location: OUTERMOST      Replacing: OL
             Location: ALTERED ZONE,
             Location: IN BANDS AND
             Location: CONCENTRIC
             Location: BANDS
             ALTRATION BANDS EXIST WHERE OL-RICH BANDS
             OCCURRED, NOW OL IS ALTERED*

Vesicles   -
             Size(mm):  0.3-1.5
             Percent:    <1
             Location: SCATTERED -
             Filling: GENERALLY
             Shape: SQUARISH TO

             Location: MORE ABUNDANT
             Filling: EMPTY
             Shape: OBLONG AND

             Location: TOWARD INT.
             Shape: ROUNDED

             Location: OF PIECE




Leg : 92    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  640/ 680  Describer: Goldberg, D.
Hole: 599B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    43.80   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   4   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    44.46   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT
       POSSIBLY TRANSITIONAL TO FERROBASALT;
       Texture: APHYRIC, SUBSPHERULITIC TO INTERGRANULAR;
       Where sampled: SECTION ACROSS PIECE WITH FRESHER INTERIOR,
       ALTERED RIM*

Groundmass - OLIVINE                   (    1%)
             Size(mm):       0.05  Morphology: EQUANT GRAINS
             MOSTLY REPLACED;

             PLAGIOCLASE               (40-45%)
             Size(mm):   0.1-0.15  Morphology: ACICULAR
             MEASUREMENT IS LENGTH, PLAG + CPX FORM
             SUBSPHERICAL CLUSTERS;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (50-55%)
             Size(mm):        0.1  Morphology: GRANULAR

             MAGNETITE                 (    5%)
             Size(mm):      <0.01  Morphology: SKELETAL, GRAINS
             DISSEMINATED MOSTLY BETWEEN CPX GRAINS*

Alteration - CLAY                      (    1%)
             Location: OUTER          Replacing: CPX-PLAG CLUMPS
             Location: OXIDIZED
             Location: ZONE
             ID UNCERTAIN FOR CLAY;

             IDDINGSITE                (  1-5%)
             Location: OUTER          Replacing: OL
             Location: OXIDIZED
             Location: ZONE, SOME IN
             Location: INTERIOR
             INTENSE IN OUTER LAYER - PSEUDOMORPHS*




    

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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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