Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1060       Sand: 070%   Sect:  1
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    16.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    17.06    Clay: 005%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: LITHIC SAND

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (50%);  FELDSPAR (02%);  MICA (07%);
PYRITE (10%);  CARBONATE (10%);  HORNBLENDE (05%);
EPIDOTE (02%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (25%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);
SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   900       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    16.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    18.40    Clay: 070%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (07%);  MICA (15%);  PYRITE (05%);
CARBONATE (05%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (73%);  NANNOFOSSIL (65%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    46.00    Silt: 030%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    48.50    Clay: 070%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (15%);  MICA (20%);  PYRITE (05%);
LIMONITE (07%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (53%);  NANNOFOSSIL (53%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand: 002%   Sect:  4
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    46.00    Silt: 027%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    51.30    Clay: 070%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: TERRIGENOUS NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (05%);  MICA (10%);  PYRITE (05%);
CARBONATE (05%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (80%);  NANNOFOSSIL (75%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   150       Sand: 050%   Sect:  1
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    74.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    74.15    Clay: 030%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: SAND,TERRIGENEOUS SAND

Components:  (Minor lithology)
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QUARTZ (20%);  FELDSPAR (05%);  GYPSUM (15%);
ROCK FRAGMENT (10%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (50%);  FORAMINIFERA (40%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   900       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    74.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    76.40    Clay: 085%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (05%);  MICA (10%);  PYRITE (10%);
EPIDOTE (02%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (75%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);
NANNOFOSSIL (70%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1100       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    74.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    78.10    Clay: 085%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (07%);  MICA (19%);  GLASS (02%);
PYRITE (04%);  DOLOMITE (05%);  LIMONITE (03%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (65%);  NANNOFOSSIL (60%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   610       Sand:        Sect:  4
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    74.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    79.11    Clay: 065%

Age : LOWER CRETACEOUS
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (15%);  MICA (23%);  PYRITE (10%);
ROCK FRAGMENT (07%);  DOLOMITE (03%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (45%);
FORAMINIFERA (07%);  NANNOFOSSIL (35%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 002%   Sect: CC
Hole: 127A  Top Core Depth(m):    74.00    Silt: 013%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    80.10    Clay: 085%

Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (05%);  MICA (10%);  PYRITE (05%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (80%);  NANNOFOSSIL (80%);

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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