Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   217.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   217.80    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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FORAMINIFERA (03%);  NANNOFOSSIL (95%);  SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):  1460       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   217.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   218.46    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (04%);  NANNOFOSSIL (94%);
SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):   270       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   217.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   218.77    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (02%);  PYRITE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (03%);
NANNOFOSSIL (96%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   217.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   218.90    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
PYRITE (01%);  FORAMINIFERA (04%);  NANNOFOSSIL (94%);
SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):   420       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   217.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :   218.92    Clay:

Name: FORAM-BEARING NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
PYRITE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (94%);
SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 37    Top Int Depth(mm):  1060       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 333A  Top Core Depth(m):   282.00    Silt:
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :   283.06    Clay:

Name: NANNO CHALK

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

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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