Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1200/1500  Analyst: Schlanger, S.
Hole: 166   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   308.50
Core:  29   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   307.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   308.20

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : APHANITIC, GLASSY RIND IN UPPER PCES;

  Structure  : IN UPPER PCES CALCITE FILLED FRACTURES 1-2MM, IN
               LAST TWO PCES CALCITE FILLING VEINLETS, DENSE;

  Alteration : UPPER PCES ARE ALTERED;

  Comments   : UPPER PCES ARE PALE BROWN, LAST TWO PCES ARE DARK
               GRAY N3 WHEN WET AND MEDIUM GRAY N5 WHEN DRY;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               IN VEINS AND FRACTURES;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Schlanger, S.
Hole: 166   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   310.00
Core:  29   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   307.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   308.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : APHANITIC, INTERVAL (110-124) IS BRECCIATED - MADE
               UP OF BLACK GLASS IN CALCITE MATRIX, AT 125CM GLASS
               FLOW BOUNDARY?;

  Structure  : HIGHLY FRACTURED - FILLED WITH CALCITE, VERY DENSE;

  Comments   : BASALT IS DARK GRAY N3 WHEN WET AND MEDIUM GRAY N5
               WHEN DRY;

  Vesicles   : VESICLES NOT NOTED;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               IN FRACTURES;

               CHLORITE
               ID UNCERTAIN, INCLUDED IN CALCITE AREAS ARE FILMS
               OF GREEN MINERAL (CHLORITE?) SEPARATING THE
               BASALT;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Schlanger, S.
Hole: 166   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   311.50
Core:  29   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   307.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   310.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT AND BASALTIC BRECCIA;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : APHANITIC, MANY PCES SHOW SHINY GLASSY BORDERS AT
               14+80+125+134CM;

  Structure  : DENSE;

  Comments   : BETWEEN 124-130CM IS PCE OF BRECCIA MADE UP OF BLACK
               GLASS FRAGMENTS SEPARATED BY VEINLETS FILLED WITH
               COARSE CALCITE SPAR AND PCES OF RED BROWN ANGULAR
               NATURAL BORDERED ROCK?, AT 83-91CM PCE OF ROCK IN
               GLASS BASALT WHITE TO LIGHT GREEN TO LIGHT
               BROWNISH GRAY WITH COARSE CALCITE SPAR;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               CALCITE SPAR IN BRECCIA AND IN INTERVAL (83-91);


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Schlanger, S.
Hole: 166   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   311.60
Core:  29   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   307.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   311.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

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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