Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    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        99       1.20/ 90             28
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO-FORAM RICH LIME MUD                                   
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/  80  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.58    Age: 
Sect:  2    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
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     50        35        99       1.17/ 91              6
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO-BEARING LIME MUD                                      
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   80/1000  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.58    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.50    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.92
 
       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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     10        10        99           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : RAD-BEARING BROWN CLAY                                      
Screen Lith    : RADIOLARIA RICH PELAGIC CLAY                                
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1000/1500  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.50    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35        99       1.22/ 88             48
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO-BEARING LIME MUD                                      
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35        99       1.22/ 88            138
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNO-BEARING LIME MUD                                      
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 120  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.00    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.12    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.12
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     80        52         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAM-NANNO OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : RADIOLARIA RICH FORAMINIFERA RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE          
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  120/ 560  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.12    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.56    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35         0       1.44/ 75             35
 
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Shipboard Lith : LIME MUD WITH NANNOS AND FORAMS                             
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  560/1140  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.56    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.14    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.58
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35         0       1.40/ 78             62
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY-RADIOLARIAN OOZE                                     
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1140/1340  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.14    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.34    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35         0       1.56/ 68             21
 
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Shipboard Lith : LIME MUD WITH NANNOS AND FORAMS                             
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1340/1500  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.34    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.16
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35         0       1.32/ 82             17
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY RADIOLARIAN OOZE                                     
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 165   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.50    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.00    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
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     50        35         0       1.40/ 78            158
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAM-NANNO RICH LIME MUD                                   
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE

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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