Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 440  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.44    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.44
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1         0        99       1.27/ 85             41
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH NANNOFOSSIL RICH MUD                      
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  440/ 500  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.44    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.50    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        99       1.30/ 83              7
 
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Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  500/1500  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.50    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.26/ 86            106
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : DETRITAL SEDIMENT.                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        15        85       1.23/ 88            153
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : CHERT FRAGMENT RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY          
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1440  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.44    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.44
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.27/ 85            142
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : IRON RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY                    
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 620  Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: LOWER QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.12    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.62
 
       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: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY                                   
Screen Lith    : CLAY                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 51    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 100  Age: 
Hole: 417B  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.23    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.33    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.10
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      4         0        96           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : BROWN CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CLAY

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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