Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1010/1090  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.01    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   39.09    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.08
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     89         0        11           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : DOLOMITE RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                              
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1100/1150  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.10    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   39.15    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.05
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     52         0        48           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SANDSTONE                                                   
Screen Lith    : QUARTZ RICH MARLY CARBONATE LIMESTONE                       
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1170/1250  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.17    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   39.25    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.08
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     85         0        15           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : LIMESTONE                                                   
Screen Lith    : INDURATED FORAMINIFERA CHALK                                
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1300/1500  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.30    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   39.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.20
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     80         0        20           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH DOLOMITE RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE             
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  680/1060  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.68    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   40.06    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.38
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     71         0        30       1.50/ 72             14
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MARL OOZE                                                   
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL CHALK                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1060/1500  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   40.06    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   40.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.44
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     75         0        25       1.90/ 48             45
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MARL                                                        
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH DOLOMITE OOZE                              
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  200/1500  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   94.20    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   95.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.30
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     35         0        65       1.83/ 52            132
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MARL OOZE                                                   
Screen Lith    : QUARTZ RICH FORAMINIFERA RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE        
 
 
 
Leg : 13    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/  30  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 129   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  111.00    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   4   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  111.03    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.03
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     55         0        45           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SANDSTONE                                                   
Screen Lith    : GYPSUM RICH MARLY FORAMINIFERA LIMESTONE

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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