Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.00    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   40.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     50        35        19           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : OOZE                                                        
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   40.50    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   42.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     93         0         8           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : OOZE                                                        
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   42.00    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   43.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     75         0        25           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL NANNO MARL OOZE                               
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   43.50    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   45.00    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     75        23         2           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL NANNO MARL OOZE                               
Screen Lith    : RADIOLARIA RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                            
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   45.00    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   46.50    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : OOZE                                                        
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS SEDIMENT.                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   46.50    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   48.00    Age: 
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50         0        50           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL NANNO MARL OOZE                               
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                    
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   48.00    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   49.50    Age: 
Sect:  7    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     52        21        28           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO FORAMINIFERAL MARL OOZE                               
Screen Lith    : SPICULE RICH NANNOFOSSIL RICH FORAMINIFERA OOZE             
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  400/1440  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   96.40    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   97.44    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.04
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     20         0        80       1.46/ 74             79
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO FORAMINIFERAL MARL OOZE                               
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH MICA RICH CLASTIC SEDIMENT                
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1440/1500  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   97.44    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   97.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.06
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        80       1.45/ 75              6
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   97.50    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   99.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        80       1.61/ 65            155
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 146A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   99.00    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  100.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        80       1.66/ 62            156
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY

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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