Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   70/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  229.57    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  231.00    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.43
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     70         2        29           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   70/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  231.07    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  232.50    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.43
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   60/1450  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  232.56    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  233.95    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.39
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     74         0         0       1.66/ 62            137
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   50/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  234.05    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  235.50    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.45
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     70         2        28           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH NANNOFOSSIL CHALK                 
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   30/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  235.53    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  237.00    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.47
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     83         0        17           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                  
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  237.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  237.50    Age: 
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     80         0        20           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                  
 
 
 
Leg : 47    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/  00  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 398B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  237.61    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  237.61    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35        20           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO OOZE                                                  
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE

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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