Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  2    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  550/1500  Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole:   8   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  168.45    Age: MIDDLE MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  169.40    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.95
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.79/ 54             98
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : MUD                                                         
Screen Lith    : MUD                                                         
 
 
 
Leg :  2    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  650/1500  Age: EOCENE
Hole:   8   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  249.65    Age: EOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  250.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.85
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        59        42           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification failed; no smear slide data exists.
Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg :  2    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: EOCENE
Hole:   8   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  250.50    Age: EOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  252.00    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     25        40        42       1.45/ 75            156
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : RAD MUD                                                     
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MUDDY RADIOLARIA OOZE                     
 
 
 
Leg :  2    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: EOCENE
Hole:   8   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  252.00    Age: EOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  253.50    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        53        47       1.47/ 74            156
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : RAD OOZE                                                    
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH SPICULE RICH MUDDY RADIOLARIA 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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