Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 14    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  500/   0  Describer: Benson, W.E.
Hole: 141   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   295.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  10   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   295.50   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = DIABASIC BASALT
       SOURCE IS IR (PAGE 246), HIGHLY ALTERED*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.6  Morphology: LATHS
             LABRADORITE,MOST PLAG ALTERED EXCEPT IN SOME
             COARSER-GRAINED AREAS,PLAG SAUSSURITIZED AND
             ALBITIZED;

             PYROXENE

             MICROCRYST GROUNDMASS
             INCLUDES SERPENTINE AND/OR CHLOROPHAEITE*

Alteration - SAPONITE
             Location: SPHERULES

             SERPENTINITE
             Replacing: PYX

             CHLOROPHAEITE

             PREHNITE
             LOCALLY PRESENT,OFTEN AS SPHERULITES;

             SAPONITE
             Location: SPHERULES

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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