Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg 84, hole 566A
Physiographic feature:	canyon (submarine)
Total penetration (m):	7
# sediment cores:	1
Oldest sediment core:	1
Oldest sediment age:	Upper Pliocene
Oldest sediment description:	siliceous mud
Type of crust:	oceanic
Depth to basement (m):	7
# Rock cores:	1
Rock description:	peridotite/serpentinite
Other holes at this site:	566 566B 566C
Adjacent sites :	494 495 496 497 498 499 500 567 568 569
Data types available:

age profile	original	delimited
benthic foraminifera	original	delimited	browse
core depth recovery	original	delimited
diatoms	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock major-element chemistry	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock minor-element chemisty	original	delimited	browse
nannofossils	original	delimited	browse
SCREEN descriptions	original	delimited	browse
site summary information	original	delimited
smearslide descriptions	original	delimited	browse
sonic velocity	original	delimited
visual descriptions	original	delimited	browse

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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