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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1050       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.05    Clay: 075%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: DOLOMITIC NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (03%);  MICA (03%);  PYRITE (02%);
DOLOMITE (20%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (89%);  FORAMINIFERA (07%);
NANNOFOSSIL (65%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1060       Sand: 001%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.06    Clay: 079%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (03%);  MICA (05%);  PYRITE (03%);
CARBONATE (02%);  DOLOMITE (10%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (89%);
NANNOFOSSIL (77%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1110       Sand: 070%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.11    Clay: 005%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: CALCITE-QUARTZOSE ARENITE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (40%);  MICA (03%);  PYRITE (05%);
CARBONATE (50%);  DOLOMITE (02%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1200       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.20    Clay:

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: FORAM LIMESTONE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  PYRITE (10%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (85%);
FORAMINIFERA (85%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.40    Clay: 040%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: DOLOMITIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (20%);  PYRITE (10%);  CARBONATE (10%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (70%);  DOLOMITE (60%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1480       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    38.00    Silt: 005%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    39.48    Clay: 095%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: CALCITIC MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (03%);  PYRITE (05%);  CARBONATE (20%);
DOLOMITE (10%);  NANNOFOSSIL (60%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   900       Sand: 020%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    39.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    39.90    Clay: 060%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: TERRIGENOUS NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  MICA (05%);  PYRITE (05%);
CARBONATE (05%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (85%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);
NANNOFOSSIL (55%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1250       Sand: 003%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    39.00    Silt: 077%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    40.25    Clay: 020%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: DOLOMITIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (20%);  MICA (03%);  PYRITE (07%);
CARBONATE (10%);  DOLOMITE (60%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (70%);
NANNOFOSSIL (02%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1480       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    39.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    40.48    Clay: 080%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: NANNO LIMESTONE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
MICA (10%);  PYRITE (05%);  DOLOMITE (20%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (80%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);  NANNOFOSSIL (55%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   370       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    94.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    94.37    Clay: 080%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: SILICEOUS MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (40%);  MICA (22%);  DOLOMITE (03%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (33%);  NANNOFOSSIL (30%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1100       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    94.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    95.10    Clay: 080%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (20%);  MICA (05%);  DOLOMITE (15%);
OOLITE (10%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (55%);  FORAMINIFERA (40%);
PYRITE (10%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1140       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    94.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    95.14    Clay: 040%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (25%);  MICA (07%);  CARBONATE (10%);
DOLOMITE (05%);  OOLITE (13%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (55%);
NANNOFOSSIL (40%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1270       Sand: 020%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    94.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    95.27    Clay: 065%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (25%);  MICA (05%);  GLAUCONITE (03%);
PYRITE (02%);  LIMONITE (05%);  DOLOMITE (15%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (35%);  FORAMINIFERA (03%);  NANNOFOSSIL (17%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):   111.00    Silt: 010%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :   111.00    Clay: 090%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CARBONATE (01%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 070%   Sect:  1
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):   111.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :   111.00    Clay: 010%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: SANDSTONE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (05%);  MICA (05%);  GYPSUM (25%);
FORAMINIFERA (50%);  NANNOFOSSIL (05%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):   111.00    Silt:
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :   112.60    Clay:

Name: CALCARENITE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (10%);  FORAMINIFERA (90%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 090%   Sect: CC
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    46.00    Silt:
Core: C 1   Sample Depth (m) :    46.10    Clay: 010%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: GYPSUM BEARING ROCK FRAGMENTS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
GYPSUM (20%);  FORAMINIFERA (20%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 015%   Sect: CC
Hole: 129   Top Core Depth(m):    99.00    Silt: 035%
Core: C 2   Sample Depth (m) :    99.10    Clay: 050%

Name: DOLOMITIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (25%);  MICA (05%);  PYRITE (03%);
DOLOMITE (20%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (07%);  FORAMINIFERA (04%);
NANNOFOSSIL (03%);

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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