Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):   700       Sand: 015%   Sect:  1
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.70    Clay: 025%

Name: FORAM DIAT BEARING DET CARB NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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BIOTITE (01%);  QUARTZ (02%);  MICA (01%);
TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS (05%);  CLAY MINERAL (02%);  CARBONATE (25%);
FORAMINIFERA (07%);  NANNOFOSSIL (53%);  DIATOM (08%);
SPICULE (02%);  SILICOFLAGELLATE (02%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):   700       Sand: 002%   Sect:  1
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.70    Clay: 073%

Name: RADS DIAT FORAM NANNO BEARING DET CARB SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (02%);  MICA (02%);  CLAY MINERAL (10%);
CARBONATE (55%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (01%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);  DIATOM (07%);  RADIOLARIA (07%);
SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):   810       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.81    Clay:

Name: NANNO RICH FORAM OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (02%);  CLAY MINERAL (05%);  FORAMINIFERA (66%);
NANNOFOSSIL (25%);  DIATOM (02%);  RADIOLARIA (02%);
SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):  1370       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.37    Clay:

Name: SILICEOUS RICH DET CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (02%);  HEAVY MINERAL (02%);  CLAY MINERAL (50%);
MICRONODULE (05%);  PHOSPHATE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);
NANNOFOSSIL (02%);  DIATOM (20%);  RADIOLARIA (10%);
SPICULE (15%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):   900       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.40    Clay: 075%

Name: CLAY RICH NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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CLAY MINERAL (25%);  PHOSPHATE (02%);  GLAUCONITE (10%);
MICRONODULE (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (55%);  DIATOM (01%);
RADIOLARIA (02%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):  1210       Sand: 002%   Sect:  3
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     4.21    Clay: 058%

Name: DET SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS (90%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (02%);  GLAUCONITE (01%);
MICA (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (01%);  QUARTZ (01%);
RADIOLARIA (01%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 29    Top Int Depth(mm):  1050       Sand:        Sect:  4
Hole: 280   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     5.55    Clay:

Name: SILICEOUS RICH NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);  NANNOFOSSIL (87%);
DIATOM (05%);  RADIOLARIA (02%);  SPICULE (05%);

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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