Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Describer: Bonatti, E.
Hole: 353B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   168.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   168.00   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 1

ROCK = PLAG-OL PHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: OL MICROPHENOS;

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE
             Morphology: SKELETAL,ELONGATED,PLATES
             CALCIC;

             OLIVINE
             RELATIVELY FRESH, MICROPOHENOS*

Groundmass - OPAQUE MINERALS

             GLASS
             PROBABLY GLASS, GROUNDMASS ALSO FINE SECONDARY
             PHASES*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   1  Describer: Bonatti, E.
Hole: 353B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   168.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   168.00   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 14

ROCK = OL-PLAG SPARSELY PHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: FINE, GLASSY, MICROPHYRIC;

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE
             Morphology: FINE, NEEDLES
             CALCIC;

             OLIVINE
             Morphology: EUHEDRAL, SCATTERED
             NUMEROUS MICROPHENOS, ONE VERY LARGE EUHEDRAL
             RELATIVELY FRESH PHENO*

Groundmass - OPAQUE MINERALS
             Morphology: DUST

Alteration - SMECTITE
             Location: GROUNDMASS
             A FEW PRESENT*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   50/  80  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 353B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   168.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   168.07   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 1

ROCK = OL MICROPHYRIC HYALOBASALT
       SOURCE IS IR;
       Texture: MICROPHYRIC*

Phenocrysts- OLIVINE
             Morphology: MICROPHENOS
             RELATIVELY FRESH*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (    1%)
             Morphology: SKELETAL,ELONGATED PLATES
             CALCIC;

             PYROXENE                  (    9%)

             OLIVINE                   (    2%)

             GLASS                     (    7%)

             OTHER                     (   80%)
             GLASS WITH MICROLITES;

             OPAQUE MINERALS
             PROBABLY PRESENT*

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  120/ 150  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 353B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   168.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   168.14   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = HYALOBASALT
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (    2%)

             OLIVINE                   (    3%)

             GLASS                     (   60%)

             OTHER                     (   33%)
             GLASS WITH MICROLITES*

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    2%)




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  180/   0  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 353B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   168.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   168.18   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = HYALOBASALT
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PYROXENE                  (    3%)

             OLIVINE                   (    2%)

             GLASS                     (   78%)

             OTHER                     (   16%)
             GLASS WITH MICROLITES*

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)

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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