Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  180/ 240  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.18    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.24    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.06
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     50         4        46           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS MUD                                              
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH CARBONATE RICH MARLY CALCAREOUS OOZE       
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  240/ 270  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.24    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.27    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.03
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     72         0        28           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CARBONATE RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE           
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  270/ 430  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.27    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.43    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.16
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     52         2        46           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS MUD                                              
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CARBONATE RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE     
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  430/ 460  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.43    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.46    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.03
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MUD                                                         
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY                              
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  460/1500  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.46    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.04
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     44         1        55           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS MUD                                              
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CARBONATE RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE     
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 280  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.78    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.28
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40         2        58           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS                                                  
Screen Lith    : QUARTZ RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  280/ 400  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.78    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.90    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.12
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : MARLY CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                      
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  400/ 460  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.90    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.96    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.06
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     56         0        44           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : FORAM NANNO OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CARBONATE RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE     
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  460/1500  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.96    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.04
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40        25        44           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                      
 
 
 
Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 353A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.10    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.10    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     20         0        80           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : BASALT                                                      
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH QUARTZ RICH MUDSTONE

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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