Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  120/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.22    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.60    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.38
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35        92       1.69/ 60            145
 
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Shipboard Lith : PELAGITE                                                    
Screen Lith    :  CALCAREOUS OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.60    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.10    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     80         0        20       1.68/ 61            159
 
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Shipboard Lith : PELAGITE                                                    
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH INDURATED NANNOFOSSIL CHALK               
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.10    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.60    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         0        99       1.65/ 63            159
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : PELAGITE                                                    
Screen Lith    : LIMONITE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAYSTONE           
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.60    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.10    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         0         0       1.60/ 66            158
 
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Shipboard Lith : PELAGITE                                                    
Screen Lith    : DETRITAL SEDIMENT.                                          
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.60    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.10    Age: 
Sect:  6    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      2         0        98       1.63/ 64            158
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : PELAGITE                                                    
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CLAYSTONE                                 
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 280  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    9.10    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.38    Age: 
Sect:  7    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.28
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        98           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: 
Hole:   7   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  237.20    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  237.20    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        98           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : 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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