Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 23    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  890/   0  Describer: Kidd, R.
Hole: 223   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   713.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  39   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   715.39   Sect/Pc #:  2/PCE 12

ROCK = BASALTIC BRECCIA
       BASALT CLAST IN CALCITE-VEINED LIMESTONE,
       CONTACT WAS RECRYSTALLIZED CALCAREOUS
       MATRIX WITH INCREASED CALCITE VEINING AND
       IRON STAINING, MATRIX IS CALCITE-VEINED
       LIMESTONE, CLAST HAS VUGS;
       Texture: FINE-GRAINED;
       Where sampled: CORNER OF PCE 12*

Groundmass - FELDSPAR
             Morphology: LATHS

Alteration - PALAGONITE
             Location: MATRIX

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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