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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1180/1300  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   252.80
Core:  12   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   250.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   252.68

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : DRILL PEBBLES;

  Comments   : VISUAL DESCRIPTION FORM FOR BASALT IN CORE 12
               MISSING SO DATA IS FROM ICD;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1300/1500  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   253.00
Core:  12   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   250.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   252.80

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : VISUAL DESCRIPTION FORM FOR BASALT IN CORE 12
               MISSING SO DATA IS FROM ICD, GRAYISH BLACK (N2);

  Replacement: PYRITE
               PYRITE IMPREGNATION;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1100/1500  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   256.00
Core:  12   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   250.00
Sect:  4    Top of Section Depth(m):   255.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : DRILL PEBBLES;

  Comments   : VISUAL DESCRIPTION FORM FOR BASALT IN CORE 12
               MISSING SO DATA IS FROM ICD, GRAYISH BLACK (N2) TO
               MEDIUM DARK GRAY (N4);

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE
               WHITE CALCITE AMYGDULES;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

  Replacement: CALCITE

               PYRITE
               PYRITIZATION NOTED;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  370/1020  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   253.02
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   252.37

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : A FEW CAVITIES WITH DIMENSIONS 1X3CM FILLED WITH
               WHITE CALCITE;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY (N3) TO GRAYISH BLACK (N3) AT 50-102CM;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):    0.2-2   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE
               Shape   : IRREGULAR
               ABUNDANT WHITE CALCITE AMYGDULES;

  Replacement: CALCITE

               PYRITE
               IMPREGNATION OF SMALL PIECES OF PYRITE 0.1-0.2MM
               IN SIZE;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1100/1500  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   253.50
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   253.10

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : RARE WHITE CALCITE VEINS 0.3-1MM THICK;

  Comments   : MEDIUM DARK GRAY (N4);

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE, EMPTY
               Shape   : IRREGULAR
               POROUS & EMPTY VESICLES SOMETIMES FILLED WITH
               WHITE CALCITE;

  Replacement: CALCITE


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 380  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   253.88
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   253.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE TO MEDIUM-GRAINED;

  Structure  : WHITE CALCITE VEIN;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY (N3) TO GRAYISH BLACK (N2);

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):    0.5-1   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE
               RARE WHITE CALCITE AMYGDULES;

  Replacement: CALCITE

               PYRITE
               PYRITIZATION;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  380/ 550  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   254.05
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   253.88

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : DRILL FRAGMENTS;

  Structure  : SLICKENSIDES;

  Replacement: CLAY
               BLACK CLAY ON SURFACE;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  550/ 770  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   254.27
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   254.05

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : SLICKENSIDES, VESICLES AND CAVITIES IN SIZE 1MM TO
               3X5CM SOMETIMES FILLED WITH CALCITE CRYSTALS;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):     1-50   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE, EMPTY
               SIZE RANGE 1MM TO 3X5CM, SOMETIMES FILLED WITH
               CALCITE CRYSTALS;

  Replacement: CLAY
               BLACK CLAY;

               PYRITE
               PYRITIZATION;

               CALCITE
               CALCITE CRYSTALS;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  770/1500  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   255.00
Core:  13   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   252.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   254.27

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : DRILL FRAGMENTS;

  Structure  : PROBABLY A FRACTURE ZONE;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE
               WHITE CALCITE AMYGDULES;

  Replacement: CLAY
               ABUNDANT BLACK CLAY;

               PYRITE
               PYRITIZATION;

               CALCITE
               CALCITE CRYSTALS & AMYGDULES;

               CHLORITE
               CHLORITIZATION;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  800/1080  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   260.58
Core:  14   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   259.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   260.30

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (LIMESTONE);


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1080/1500  Analyst: Kharin, G.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   261.00
Core:  14   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   259.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   260.58

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : CONSISTS OF TWO PIECES OF CORE AND A FEW SMALL DRILL
               FRAGMENTS;

  Comments   : MEDIUM DARK GRAY (N4);

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):      1-3   Percent:
               DARK GREEN AMYGDULES;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               WHITE CALCITE;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 520  Analyst: White, S.M.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   282.02
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   278.50
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   281.50

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg : 38    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  520/1500  Analyst: White, S.M.
Hole: 343   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   283.00
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   278.50
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   282.02

LITHOLOGY: BASALT (DOLERITE);

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED, VARIOLITIC, SUBDOLERITIC;

  Structure  : SLICKENSIDES;

  Comments   : VISUAL DESCRIPTION FORM FOR BASALT IN CORE 16
               MISSING SO DATA IS FROM ICD;

  Replacement: CHLORITE
               HIGHLY CHLORITIZED;

               PYRITE
               PYRITIZATION;


    

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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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