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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   887.50
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   886.00

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           ENTIRE CORE HAS SAME LITHOLOGY;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PIECE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : HIGH DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY THROUGHOUT, VISIBLE
               PLAG PLATELETS 1-2MM LONG, NO OBVIOUS BREAKS INTO
               DIFFERENT FLOWS ARE EVIDENT IN CORE SINCE NO
               SURFACES CHILLED TO GLASS (OR FORMERLY GLASS) OCCUR,
               ENTIRE CORE REPRESENTS A SINGLE THICK FLOW OR SILL;

  Structure  : PROMINENT CALCITE VEINS THROUGHOUT ABOUT 1CM THICK;

  Alteration : SLIGHTLY MORE INTENSE WEATHERING IN UPPER PORTION
               OF BASALT SECTION, MILKY-WHITE CONCENTRATIONS
               SCATTERED THROUGHOUT BASALT BUT ESPECIALLY
               ABUNDANT BELOW TOP 2 METERS OF CORE--GENERALLY A
               FRACTION OF A MILLIMETER IN DIAMETER BUT SOMETIMES
               >1MM;

  Comments   : LIGHT GRAY WITH SOME YELLOWISH STAIN IN UPPER PART
               OF BASALT AND DARKER GRAY LOWER DOWN,
               SEDIMENT/BASALT CONTACT NOT RECOVERED SO UNABLE TO
               CHECK FOR SIGNS OF THERMAL METAMORPHISM OF THE
               SEDIMENT CLOSE TO THE CONTACT--AS EVIDENCE OF A SILL
               RATHER THAN BASEMENT FLOW, VISUAL DESCRIPTION FORMS
               FOR CORE 19 MISSING SO DATA ENCODED FROM INITIAL
               REPORTS DESCRIBING ENTIRE CORE (SECS 1-6) AS A UNIT;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               Size(mm):        1-2
               PLAG PLATELETS;

  Replacement: CALCITE


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   889.00
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   887.50

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           SAME LITHOLOGY AS SEC 1;


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   890.50
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   889.00

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           SAME LITHOLOGY AS SEC 1;


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   892.00
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  4    Top of Section Depth(m):   890.50

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           SAME LITHOLOGY AS SEC 1;


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   893.50
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  5    Top of Section Depth(m):   892.00

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           SAME LITHOLOGY AS SEC 1;


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 354   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   895.00
Core:  19   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   886.00
Sect:  6    Top of Section Depth(m):   893.50

LITHOLOGY: DOLERITIC BASALT;
           SAME LITHOLOGY AS SEC 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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