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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 12    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole: 114   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   621.10
Core:   8   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   621.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   621.10

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : ALMOST APHYRIC, RARE PHENOS OF OL AND PLAG;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" IN THE SIT
               114 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Phenocrysts: OLIVINE

               PLAGIOCLASE

  Replacement: IDDINGSITE
               Minerals Replaced: OL


Leg : 12    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 300  Analyst:
Hole: 114   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   622.70
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   622.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   622.40

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE INTERVALS (0-4), (17), (22-30);

  Texture    : ALMOST APHYRIC, RARE PHENOS OF OL AND CPX,
               VARIOLITIC;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" IN THE
               SITE 114 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CHLORITE
               VESICLES ARE FILLED WITH CHLORITIC MATERIAL;

  Phenocrysts: OLIVINE
               SOMETIMES FRESH;

               CLINOPYROXENE
               FRESH;

  Replacement: CARBONATE
               Minerals Replaced: OL

               IDDINGSITE
               Minerals Replaced: OL
               OL OFTEN REPLACED BY IDDINGSITE AND CARB;


    

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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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