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Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 025%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):     4.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :     4.10    Clay: 040%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: FORAM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (70%);  NANNOFOSSIL (30%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 004%   Sect:  1
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    23.00    Silt: 003%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    24.35    Clay: 093%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (07%);  NANNOFOSSIL (93%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 004%   Sect:  2
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    23.00    Silt: 003%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    25.85    Clay: 093%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (07%);  NANNOFOSSIL (93%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 003%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    23.00    Silt: 002%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    26.10    Clay: 095%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (90%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 003%   Sect:  1
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    32.50    Silt: 002%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    33.85    Clay: 095%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (95%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    32.50    Silt: 005%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    34.40    Clay: 090%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: FORAM BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (02%);  CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (90%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 003%   Sect:  2
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    32.50    Silt: 002%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    35.35    Clay: 095%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: FORAM BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (95%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 025%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    32.50    Silt: 035%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    35.60    Clay: 040%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: NANNO FORAM OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1320       Sand: 007%   Sect:  1
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    42.00    Silt: 008%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    43.32    Clay: 085%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM RICH NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  GLAUCONITE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);
NANNOFOSSIL (85%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    42.00    Silt: 005%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    43.35    Clay: 090%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
GLAUCONITE (01%);  IRON (01%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);
NANNOFOSSIL (90%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    42.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    43.60    Clay: 075%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: FORAM NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  IRON (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);
NANNOFOSSIL (85%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 055%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    51.50    Silt: 025%
Core:   6   Sample Depth (m) :    51.60    Clay: 020%

Age : MIOCENE
Name: DETRITAL CARBONATE AND CHERT SAND

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    61.00    Silt:
Core:   7   Sample Depth (m) :    61.10    Clay:

Age : MIDDLE EOCENE
Name: DECARBONATED CHERT

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 025%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    61.00    Silt: 050%
Core:   7   Sample Depth (m) :    61.10    Clay: 025%

Age : MIDDLE EOCENE
Name: IRON STAINED CARBONATE CHERT SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (16%);  GLAUCONITE (04%);  CARBONATE (50%);
CHERT FRAGMENT (30%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 055%   Sect: CC
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    61.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   7   Sample Depth (m) :    61.10    Clay: 020%

Age : MIDDLE EOCENE
Name: DETRITAL CARBONATE CHERT SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (02%);  IRON (02%);



Leg : 26    Top Int Depth(mm):  1070       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 255   Top Core Depth(m):    80.00    Silt:
Core:   9   Sample Depth (m) :    81.07    Clay: 099%

Age : SANTONIAN
Name: GLAUCONITIC CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLAUCONITE (99%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);



    

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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