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Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   50/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :     1.50
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :     0.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):     0.05

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (SAND & CLAY & DIATOM OOZE);
           GRANODIORITE;
           GRANITE;

  Comments   : SEDIMENT CONTAINS A 1.8CM PEBBLE OF GLAUCONITIZED
               GRANODIORITE? AT 113CM & A 1.8CM PEBBLE OF GREEN
               ACID VOLCANIC? AT 149CM;


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :     4.50
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :     0.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):     3.00

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (CLAYEY DIATOM OOZE);


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1410/1430  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :     4.43
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :     0.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):     4.41

LITHOLOGY: RHYOLITE;

  Comments   : OOZE CONTAINS A 3CM PEBBLE OF RHYOLITE;


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  950/1010  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   209.01
Core:  21   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   208.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   208.95

LITHOLOGY: GABBRO;

  Comments   : ONE 3.5CM AND ONE 8CM PEBBLE OF CHLORITIZED GABBRO
               WITH FACETED BUT ROUNDED EDGES;


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1010/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   209.50
Core:  21   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   208.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   209.01

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (DIATOM OOZE);


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  160/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   409.00
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   407.66

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (CHALK);


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  760/ 780  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   408.28
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   408.26

LITHOLOGY: GRANITE;

  Comments   : CHALK CONTAINS A 3CM PEBBLE OF GRANITE;

  Groundmass : QUARTZ

               FELDSPAR

               HORNBLENDE

  Replacement: CHLORITE
               GRANITE HAS GREEN CHLORITIZATION;


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   410.50
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   409.00

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (CALCAREOUS CHALK);


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  650/ 670  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   409.67
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   409.65

LITHOLOGY: GRANITE;

  Comments   : SEDIMENT CONTAINS A 3CM PEBBLE OF PINK GRANITE;

  Groundmass : QUARTZ

               KFELDSPAR

               HORNBLENDE


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   412.00
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   410.50

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (CHALK);


Leg : 36    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  650/ 780  Analyst: Elliot, D..
Hole: 329   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   411.28
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   407.50
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   411.15

LITHOLOGY: GRANITE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED, INTERVALS 65-69 &
               73-78CM;

  Texture    : LAMINATED PEBBLES;

  Comments   : CHALK CONTAINS A 3CM PEBBLE & A 6CM PEBBLE OF PINK
               GRANITE, MAY BE UNDERLYING DROPPED PEBBLES;

  Groundmass : QUARTZ

               KFELDSPAR

               HORNBLENDE


    

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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