Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm):   00/  10  Sample Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   227.50
Core:  10   Depth Top Sample(m) :   228.01
Sect:  1    No. Observed Fossils:     3

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  COCCOLITHUS MIOPELAGICUS (ABUNDANT/)
  DISCOASTER DEFLANDREI (TRACE/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA  SP. (SMALL) (COMMON/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm):  100/ 100  Sample Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   227.50
Core:  10   Depth Top Sample(m) :   228.10
Sect:  1    No. Observed Fossils:     3

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  COCCOLITHUS MIOPELAGICUS (ABUNDANT/)
  DISCOASTER DEFLANDREI (TRACE/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA  SP. (SMALL) (COMMON/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm):  230/ 230  Sample Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   303.50
Core:  13   Depth Top Sample(m) :   303.73
Sect:  1    No. Observed Fossils:     5

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  COCCOLITHUS EOPELAGICUS (COMMON/)
  COCCOLITHUS FLORIDANUS (FEW/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES ABISECTUS (TRACE/)
  DISCOASTER DEFLANDREI (TRACE/)
  DISCOASTER TRINIDADENSIS (Q) (TRACE/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm):   00/  10  Sample Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   379.50
Core:  17   Depth Top Sample(m) :   379.51
Sect:  1    No. Observed Fossils:     6

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  CHIASMOLITHUS ALTUS (PRESENT/)
  COCCOLITHUS EOPELAGICUS (PRESENT/)
  COCCOLITHUS FLORIDANUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES ABISECTUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES BISECTUS (TRACE/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA  SP. (SMALL) (PRESENT/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm): 1300/1300  Sample Age : MIDDLE OLIGOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   379.50
Core:  17   Depth Top Sample(m) :   382.30
Sect:  2    No. Observed Fossils:     5

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  CHIASMOLITHUS ALTUS (PRESENT/)
  COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES BISECTUS (TRACE/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES SCRIPPSAE (PRESENT/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA GARTNERI (Q) (PRESENT/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm): 1500/1500  Sample Age : MIDDLE OLIGOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   379.50
Core:  17   Depth Top Sample(m) :   382.50
Sect:  2    No. Observed Fossils:     6

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  CHIASMOLITHUS ALTUS (COMMON/)
  COCCOLITHUS EOPELAGICUS (RARE/)
  COCCOLITHUS FLORIDANUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES ABISECTUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES BISECTUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES SCRIPPSAE (PRESENT/)



Leg : 28    Top/Bot Interval(mm):   90/  90  Sample Age : MIDDLE OLIGOCENE
Hole: 268   Depth Top of Core(m):   379.50
Core:  17   Depth Top Sample(m) :   382.59
Sect:  3    No. Observed Fossils:     5

Date:   775 Investigator(s): BURNS,D.A.
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Fossils (Abundance/Preservation):
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  CHIASMOLITHUS ALTUS (PRESENT/)
  DICTYOCOCCITES BISECTUS (PRESENT/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA HILLAE (TRACE/)
  RETICULOFENESTRA  SP. (SMALL) (PRESENT/)
  SPHENOLITHUS MORIFORMIS (TRACE/)

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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