Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 168   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.10    Age: LOWER MIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.10    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     13        12        75           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : HIGHLY ZEOLITIC CLAY                                        
Screen Lith    : MICRONODULE RICH ZEOLITE RICH PELAGIC CLAYSTONE             
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: UPPER EOCENE
Hole: 168   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   39.10    Age: UPPER EOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   39.10    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1        80        19           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC RADIOLARIAN OOZE                                   
Screen Lith    : IRON RICH SPICULE RICH RADIOLARIA RICH  SILICEOUS OOZE      
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER EOCENE
Hole: 168   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   42.50    Age: UPPER EOCENE
Core:   4   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   44.00    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       130         0       1.59/ 66            157
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : RADIOLARIAN BEARING ZEOLITIC BROWN CLAY                     
Screen Lith    : SPICULE RICH RADIOLARIA RICH  SILICEOUS OOZE                
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: MIDDLE EOCENE
Hole: 168   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   61.60    Age: MIDDLE EOCENE
Core:   5   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   61.60    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     21        64        15           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO BEARING ZEOLITIC RADIOLARIAN CLAY AND CHERT           
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH SPICULE RICH RADIOLARIA RADIOLARIAITE      
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: 
Hole: 168   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   76.10    Age: 
Core:   6   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   76.10    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        15           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC CLAY AND RADIOLARIAN CLAY                          
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH RADIOLARIA RICH 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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