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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     0.00/    0.44
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/ 440
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN;S 
HOMOGENEOUS 10YR4/4 CLAY;D HIGHLY DISTURBED;O NON REACTIVE TO COLD ACID;H 
FIRM 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     0.44/    0.50
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  440/ 500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN,
10YR5/4-YELLOWISH BROWN;S 10YR4/4 CLAY THINLY LAMINATED WITH 10YR5/4 CLAY,
TOP AND BOTTOM CONTACTS ARE LIGHTLY MOTTLED;D SLIGHTLY DISTURBED;O 
10YR5/4CLAY IS CALCAREOUS TO ACID;H FIRM;Z 33211000 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     0.50/    1.50
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  500/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN,10YR3/3-DARK 
BROWN;S HOMOGENEOUS 10YR4/4 CLAY EXCEPT FOR RARE SPOTS OF 10YR3/3 CLAY,
SPOTS ARE 1-3MM IN DIAMETER;D HIGHLY DISTURBED;U 1-3 MM RARE SPOTS OF 
10YR3/3 CLAY;O 10YR4/4 NON REACTIVE TO ACID,SMEAR SLIDE OF 10YR3/3 SPOT AT 
63 CM;H FIRM 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     1.50/    3.00
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN,-DARK BROWN;
S HOMOGENEOUS 10YR4/4 CLAY,NO STRUCTURES OR DISTURBED BEDDING EVEN,VERY 
RARE DARK BROWN SPOTS (1MM IN DIAMETER) IN LOWER PART OF SECTION;D HIGHLY 
DISTURBED;U VERY RARE DARK BROWN SPOTS (1 MM IN DIAMETER);O NON CALCAREOUS 
TO ACID;H FIRM 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     3.00/    4.44
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1440
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN;S 
HOMOGENEOUS 10YR4/4 CLAY,NO STRUCTURE OR BROWN SPOTS;D HIGHLY DISTURBED;H 
SOFT 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     4.50/    5.12
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/ 620
Sect:  4
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL DARK YELLOWISH BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/4-DARK YELLOWISH BROWN;S 
HOMOGENEOUS,NO STRUCTURES;D HIGHLY DISTURBED;O NON CALCAREOUS,NO DARK 
BROWN SPOTS;H SOFT;Z 33211000 
 
 
Leg : 51    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     5.23/    5.23
Hole: 417B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/ 100
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 SAL BROWN CLAY;C 10YR4/3-BROWN;S HOMOGENEOUS;D HIGHLYDISTURBED;O WHOLE 
FRACTION AN COARSE FRACTION SMEAR SLIDES TAKEN;H SOFT 
 
 
    

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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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