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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 100  Analyst: Humphris, S.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    85.60
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    85.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    85.50

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  100/ 240  Analyst: Humphris, S.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    85.74
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    85.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    85.60

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (12-17), 2 (20-23);

  Texture    : PCE 1 PHYRIC,FINE-GRAINED,SMALL AMOUNT OF GLASS ON
               UPPER MARGIN OF PCE 1,PCE 2 IS APHYRIC;

  Alteration : MOD
               WEATHERING RIM ABOUT 1CM THICK;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CLAY.MIN
               SOME VESICLES FILLED WITH WHITE OR BLUE-GREEN
               MATERIAL(POSSIBLY CLAY.MINS);

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               OCCASIONAL,ESPECIALLY NEAR MARGINS OF PCE 1;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Humphris, S.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    96.50
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    95.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    95.00

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (0-7), 2 (9-15), 3 (17-20), 4 (21-25),
               5 (27-34), 6 (36-41), 7 (43-48), 8 (50-54),
               9 (56-61), 10 (62-68), 11 (71-77), 12 (79-84),
               13 (86-91), 14 (94-99), 15 (101-105), 16 (106-111),
               17 (114-122), 18 (124-129), 19 (130-134),
               20 (136-142), 21 (143-149);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,FINE-GRAINED,GLASSY MARGINS ON PCES 6+8+
               15+16,PCE 5 SLIGHTLY COARSER-GRAINED;

  Structure  : CRACKS FILLED BY FE.OXIDE & POSSIBLE CHLOR IN PCES
               1+16,PCE 1 HAS VEIN FILLED WITH CHLOR;

  Alteration : MOD
               PCE 3 SHOWS SIGNS OF WEATHERING WITHIN GNDMASS,
               PCE 8 HAS SLIGHT ALTERATION,BROWN OXIDE RUST
               PATCHES ON PCES 7-8;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CLAY.MIN
               PCE 3;

               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               PCE 7 MORE VESICULAR THAN REST & HAS GREEN XTLLN
               UNIDENT.MINS FILLING IN ONE LARGER VESICLE;

               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               Shape   : TUBULAR
               PCE 13 HAS THREE LARGER TUBULAR VESICLES
               CONTAINING PLATY XTLS;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               RARE IN PCE 5,ONE PHENO IN PCE 14;

               OLIVINE
               PCES 14+15 HAVE ONE PARTIALLY ALTERED PHENO;

  Replacement: QUARTZ

               ZEOLITE

               CHLORITE
               ALL REPLACEMENT MINERALS FOUND AS AN ALTERATION
               CRUST IN PCES 1+4+11-12+18-19,CHLOR ALSO FOUND IN
               VEINS;

               FERROUS OXIDE
               FILLS CRACKS;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1400  Analyst: Mattey, D.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    97.90
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    95.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):    96.50

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (3-6), 2 (11-14);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,FINE-GRAINED;

  Alteration : FRESH
               PCE 1 THIN INDISTINCT WEATHERING RIND;
               MOD
               PCE 2 MORE PROMINENT WEATHERING RIND,PCE 1 HAS A
               SMALL PATCH OF RUSTY WEATHERED CRUST;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):            Percent:    <5
               PCE 1 HAS EMPTY VESICLES;

               Size(mm):            Percent:     0
               PCE 2;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 590  Analyst: Mattey, D.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   105.09
Core:   4   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   104.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   104.50

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (2-10), 2 (14-19), 3 (22-29), 4 (32-36),
               5 (40-45), 6 (48-51), 7 (55-59);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,FINE-GRAINED,PCE 4 SLIGHTLY COARSER-GRAINED,
               PCE 6 SPARSELY PHYRIC WITH GLASSY MARGIN;

  Structure  : FRACTURE IN PCE 6 FILLED WITH GREEN ALTERATION
               MATERIAL;

  Alteration : FRESH
               PCES 1+4+6-7;
               MOD
               PCES 2-3+5;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling:
               Shape   : LONG,TUBULAR
               PCES 1+7;

               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               PCES 2-3+5 HAVE A FEW VESICLES FILLED WITH A BLUE
               OR GREENISH-YELLOW UNIDENT SECONDARY MINERAL;

               Size(mm):            Percent:    <5
               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               PCE 4,SOME FILLED WITH WHITE & PALE BLUE
               UNIDENT.MINS;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               SPARSELY IN PCE 6 & RARE IN PCE 4;

  Replacement: UNIDENTIFIED
               UNIDENT BLUE OR GREENISH-YELLOW SECONDARY MINERAL
               FOUND IN PCES 2-3+5,WHITE & PALE BLUE UNIDENT.MINS
               FOUND IN PCE 4;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 290  Analyst: Natland, J.
Hole: 421   Sample Midpoint (m)    :     0.29
Core: B 1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :     0.00
Sect:       Top of Section Depth(m):     0.00

LITHOLOGY: PLAG SPARSELY PHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (2-4), 2 (6-15), 3 (17-24);

  Texture    : SPARSELY PHYRIC,PCE 2 HAS A LOWER FLAT GLASSY EDGE;

  Structure  : EXTERIOR SURFACES OF PCES ARE JOINT SURFACES;

  Alteration : MOD
               ALTERATION RINDS PROMINENT ON PCES 2-3;

  Comments   : SAMPLES CAME UP IN THE BIT,THE DEPTH THEY WERE CORED
               IS NOT KNOWN-THEY MAY HAVE FALLEN DOWN THE HOLE
               AFTER RETRIEVING CORE 4-1,ORIENTATION OF PCE 2 IS
               UNCERTAIN SINCE IT MAY HAVE FALLEN DOWN THE HOLE,
               THIN DUSKY BROWN OXIDATION OR FE-MN COATING;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):            Percent:    <1

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               Size(mm):         <2


    

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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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