Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1190  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   378.69
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   376.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   377.50

LITHOLOGY: CLAY;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1190/1210  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   378.71
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   376.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   378.69

LITHOLOGY: VOLCANICS AND SANDSTONE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1210/1500  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   379.00
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   376.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   378.71

LITHOLOGY: DIABASIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : COARSE-GRAINED, HOLOXTLINE;

  Structure  : VERTICAL VEIN THROUGH 3 PCES;

  Alteration : FRESH TO SLIGHTLY ALTERED;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               MAJOR FILLING IN LARGE VEIN;

               CHLORITE
               MINOR FILLING IN LARGE VEIN;

  Vesicles   : SOME AMYGDULES AT TOP CONTACT;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   379.10
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   376.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   379.10

LITHOLOGY: DIABASIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : CORE CATCHER VERY SIMILAR TO CORE 13-2;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  980/1500  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   379.50
Core:  14   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   378.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   378.98

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : VERY COARSE-GRAINED, HOLOXTLINE;

  Structure  : SOME CALCITE FILLED VEINS AND VERTICAL FRACTURES
               WITH CALCITE;

  Vesicles   : AMYGDULES IN PLACES, GREEN MICACEOUS FILLING;

  Groundmass : PLAGIOCLASE
               LATHS;

               PYROXENE

               OTHER
               OXIDE VEINS AND SCATTERED SPECS OF MICACEOUS
               SUBSTANCE;
               ALL ABOVE POSSIBLY IN GROUNDMASS;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               FILLING VEINS;

               OTHER
               GREEN MICACEOUS SUBSTANCE IN AMYGDULES;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   379.60
Core:  14   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   378.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   379.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : CORE CATCHER SIMILAR TO CORE 14-1;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1000/1500  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   380.50
Core:  15   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   379.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   380.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : COARSE-GRAINED;

  Structure  : VEINED WITH CALCITE;

  Comments   : SIMILAR TO CORE 14-1;

  Vesicles   : AMYGDULES;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               FILLING VEINS;


Leg : 15    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Donnelly, T.
Hole: 151   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   380.60
Core:  15   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   379.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   380.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : SIMILAR TO CORES 14-1 AND 15-1;

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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