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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.00    Clay: 060%

Name: ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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FELDSPAR (04%);  HEAVY MINERAL (04%);  LIMONITE (04%);
GLASS (04%);  PALAGONITE (04%);  IRON (08%);
MICRONODULE (04%);  ZEOLITE (35%);  CLAY MINERAL (35%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand:        Sect:  4
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     5.50    Clay: 060%

Name: ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (04%);  HEAVY MINERAL (04%);  GLASS (04%);
PALAGONITE (04%);  MICRONODULE (04%);  ZEOLITE (38%);
CLAY MINERAL (38%);  IRON (04%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand:        Sect:  6
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     8.80    Clay: 060%

Name: ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (04%);  HEAVY MINERAL (04%);  IRON (04%);
GLASS (04%);  PALAGONITE (04%);  MICRONODULE (04%);
ZEOLITE (38%);  CLAY MINERAL (38%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     9.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    10.30    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (04%);  HEAVY MINERAL (04%);  LIMONITE (04%);
GLASS (04%);  PALAGONITE (14%);  IRON (04%);
ZEOLITE (33%);  CLAY MINERAL (33%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand:        Sect:  4
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     9.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    14.50    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (06%);  HEAVY MINERAL (06%);  LIMONITE (06%);
GLASS (06%);  PALAGONITE (55%);  IRON (06%);
ZEOLITE (55%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):   850       Sand:        Sect:  5
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     9.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    15.85    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: CLAYEY CALCAREOUS TURBIDITE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
IRON (04%);  GLASS (04%);  PALAGONITE (04%);
CLAY MINERAL (33%);  PYRITE (04%);  ZEOLITE (04%);
CARBONATE (45%);  NANNOFOSSIL (04%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1220       Sand: 035%   Sect:  6
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     9.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    17.72    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: PALAGONITE TUFF

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (06%);  HEAVY MINERAL (06%);  LIMONITE (06%);
GLASS (06%);  PALAGONITE (75%);  IRON (06%);
ZEOLITE (06%);  MONTMORILLONITE (23%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand:        Sect:  6
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):     9.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    17.90    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: CLAYEY CHALK (RECRYSTALLIZED)

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (06%);  ZEOLITE (06%);  CARBONATE (75%);
CLAY MINERAL (23%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):  1100       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):    19.50    Silt: 035%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    20.60    Clay: 060%

Age : LOWER OLIGOCENE
Name: CALCAREOUS PALAGONITE TUFF

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (03%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (03%);  GLASS (10%);
PALAGONITE (25%);  ZEOLITE (10%);  CARBONATE (25%);
CLAY MINERAL (25%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):    19.50    Silt:
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    21.10    Clay:

Age : LOWER OLIGOCENE
Name: PALAGONITE TUFF

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
PALAGONITE (23%);  CLAY MINERAL (55%);  ZEOLITE (23%);
BASALT (23%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (06%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):    22.50    Silt:
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :    24.10    Clay:

Name: PALAGONITE TUFF

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
ZEOLITE (23%);  CLAY MINERAL (55%);  PALAGONITE (23%);
CARBONATE (06%);  BASALT (06%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (06%);



Leg : 32    Top Int Depth(mm):   870       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 311   Top Core Depth(m):    28.00    Silt:
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :    28.90    Clay:

Name: PALAGONITE TUFF

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
PALAGONITE (55%);  ZEOLITE (23%);  CLAY MINERAL (23%);
VOLC MATERIAL FRAG (23%);

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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