Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 10    Top Int Depth(mm):  1360       Sand: 040%   Sect:  1
Hole:  87   Top Core Depth(m):   648.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   649.36    Clay: 025%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: QUARTZOSE SANDY MUD

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (50%);  FELDSPAR (05%);  ARAGONITE (06%);
AMPHIBOLE (06%);  ROCK FRAGMENT (10%);  CHERT FRAGMENT (06%);
ZIRCON (06%);  FORAMINIFERA (06%);  NANNOFOSSIL (06%);
PLANT DEBRIS (06%);



Leg : 10    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole:  87   Top Core Depth(m):   648.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   649.40    Clay: 060%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: SLIGHTLY CALCAREOUS MUD QUARTZOSE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (55%);  MICA (07%);  DOLOMITE (06%);
OPAQUE MINERAL (06%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (20%);  NANNOFOSSIL (06%);
PLANT DEBRIS (06%);



Leg : 10    Top Int Depth(mm):   140       Sand: 060%   Sect:  2
Hole:  87   Top Core Depth(m):   648.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   649.64    Clay: 035%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: SANDY MUDSTONE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (37%);  FELDSPAR (04%);  MICA (15%);
IRON (04%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (15%);  HEAVY MINERAL (04%);
BASALT (04%);  FORAMINIFERA (04%);  NANNOFOSSIL (04%);
SPICULE (04%);  PLANT DEBRIS (04%);



Leg : 10    Top Int Depth(mm):   850       Sand: 010%   Sect:  2
Hole:  87   Top Core Depth(m):   648.00    Silt: 085%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   650.35    Clay: 060%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: ASHY SILTSTONE

Components:  (Minor lithology)
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QUARTZ (24%);  MICA (24%);  GLASS (24%);
OPAQUE MINERAL (02%);  CARBONATE (24%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (30%);
ROCK FRAGMENT (02%);



Leg : 10    Top Int Depth(mm):  1050       Sand: 060%   Sect:  2
Hole:  87   Top Core Depth(m):   648.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   650.55    Clay: 035%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: ASHY BIOTITIC MUDSTONE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (31%);  FELDSPAR (04%);  MICA (16%);
GLASS (31%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (13%);  DOLOMITE (05%);
AMPHIBOLE (01%);

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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