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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  130/ 150  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   886.14   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   35%)
             APPROX COMP AN61 ZONAL FROM AN50-60;

             IRON ORE                  (   11%)

             GLASS                     (   10%)

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    4%)

             OTHER                     (   40%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1460/1480  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   888.97   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   36%)

             PYROXENE                  (    3%)
             APPROX COMP AUGITE;

             IRON ORE                  (    6%)

             OTHER                     (   24%)
             GLASS WITH MICROLITES*

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)

             OTHER                     (    1%)
             CHALCEDONY+FLINT;

             OTHER                     (   29%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  190/ 210  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   889.20   Sect/Pc #:  3/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   30%)
             APPROX COMP AN70 ZONAL FROM AN60-70;

             PYROXENE                  (    1%)

             IRON ORE                  (   15%)

             GLASS                     (   15%)

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)

             OTHER                     (    1%)
             CHALCEDONY+FLINT;

             OTHER                     (   37%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  680/ 730  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   891.21   Sect/Pc #:  4/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   26%)
             APPROX COMP AN51-70;

             PYROXENE                  (  2.5%)
             APPROX COMP AUGITE;

             IRON ORE                  (   11%)

             GLASS                     (    9%)

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)

             OTHER                     (  .45%)
             CHALCEDONY+FLINT;

             OTHER                     (   46%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  670/ 690  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   892.68   Sect/Pc #:  5/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   38%)

             PYROXENE                  (    4%)

             IRON ORE                  (   16%)

             OTHER
             GLASS WITH MICROLITES*

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    1%)

             OTHER                     (    1%)
             CHALCEDONY+FLINT;

             OTHER                     (   35%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   30/  50  Describer: Kharin, G.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   893.54   Sect/Pc #:  6/

ROCK = CARBONATIZED DOLERITE
       SOURCE IS IR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   30%)
             APPROX COMP 60;

             PYROXENE                  (   20%)
             APPROX COMP AUGITE;

             IRON ORE                  (  5.5%)

             GLASS                     (   27%)

Alteration - OTHER                     (  .15%)
             CHALCEDONY+FLINT

             OTHER                     (   16%)
             CALCITE+ANKERITE*




Leg : 39    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  310/ 320  Describer: Bonatti, E.
Hole: 354   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   886.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  19   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   893.82   Sect/Pc #:  6/PCE 4

ROCK = DOLERITIC BASALT;
       Texture: COARSE-GRAINED, SUBOPHITIC, DOLERITIC;

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE
             Size(mm):    0.5-1.5  Morphology: PLATES
             CALCIC, APPROX COMP AN65,FREQUENT ALBITE AND
             CARLSBAD TWINNING, OCCASIONAL ZONING;

             CLINOPYROXENE
             Morphology: PARTLY EUHEDRAL
             LARGE, C-GAMMA ANGLE APPROX 45-50 IN RANGE OF
             AUGITE;

             OLIVINE                   (    0%)

Groundmass - OPAQUE MINERALS
             Morphology: ACICULAR, SKELETAL
             FREQUENTLY IN A NETWORK OF PARALLEL ALIGNMENTS,
             INCLUDES MAGN + ILMENITE, RELATIVELY LARGE*

Alteration - CALCITE
             Replacing: CPX
             LARGE (TO 1MM) GENERALLY ROUNDED AGGREGATES OF
             MICROCRYSTALLINE CALCITE;

             CHALCEDONY
             FORMERLY VESICLES?;

             CALCITE
             Location: VEIN

             CHALCEDONY
             Location: VEIN

             EPIDOTE
             Location: VEIN

             ZEOLITE
             Location: VEIN

             CHLORITE
             Location: VEIN
             MAGN ALSO FOUND IN VEIN*




    

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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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