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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/  40  Analyst: Mattey, D.
Hole: 424A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    29.76
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    24.50
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    29.82

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   40/ 180  Analyst: Mattey, D.
Hole: 424A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    29.90
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    24.50
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    29.76

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (10-18);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,FINE-GRAINED;

  Alteration : FRESH

  Comments   : MEDIUM GRAY BASALT;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CLAY.MINS
               BLUE CLAY.MINS IN VESICLES & LINED WITH THIN
               ACICULAR XTLS;

  Groundmass : FINE-GRAINED MATRIX WHICH IS UNRESOLVABLE;

  Replacement: CLAY MINERALS
               BLUE CLAY.MINS IN VESICLES;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  320/ 400  Analyst: Schrader, E.L.
Hole: 424A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    34.40
Core: X 1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    34.00
Sect:       Top of Section Depth(m):    34.32

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           LITHIFIED NANNOFOSSIL FORAM OOZE;

  Piece No.  : PCE 5 (32-40);


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 160  Analyst: Schrader, E.L.
Hole: 424A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    34.16
Core: X 1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    34.00
Sect:       Top of Section Depth(m):    34.00

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (0-7), 2 (8-16);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,GLASSY MARGIN IN PCE 1,INCREASINGLY FINE-
               GRAINED TOWARDS GLASSY MARGIN IN PCE 1,SLIGHTLY MORE
               COARSENESS IN PCE 2;

  Alteration : FRESH
               PCE 2;
               SLIGHTLY
               PCE 1,BLUE SECONDARY MINERAL ON EXTERIOR SURFACE O
               PCE 1;

  Comments   : ALL PCES IN SECTION RUBBLE WITH NO STRATIGRAPHIC
               ORIENTATION;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,CLAY.MINS
               PCE 2 IS MORE VESICULAR THAN PCE 1 & VESICLES
               CONTAIN BLUE CLAY.MINS ALSO CALCITE IN ONE
               VESICLE;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               CALCITE XTLS IN A VESICLE PCE 2;

               CLAY MINERALS
               BLUE;

               UNIDENTIFIED
               BLUE UNIDENT.MINS ON EXTERIOR OF PCE 1;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  170/ 650  Analyst: Schrader, E.L.
Hole: 424A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    34.65
Core: X 1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    34.00
Sect:       Top of Section Depth(m):    34.17

LITHOLOGY: PLAG SPARSELY PHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 3 (17-23), 4 (24-30), 6 (41-50), 7 (51-57),
               8 (58-65);

  Texture    : SPARSELY PHYRIC,GLASSY MARGIN IN PCE 6,FINE-GRAINED
               BUT SLIGHTLY COARSER IN PCES 3+4;

  Structure  : ONE LARGE VEIN FILLED WITH GREEN CLAY.MINS IN PCE 4,
               LARGE CRACK RUNS THROUGH THE LARGEST VUG;

  Alteration : FRESH
               PCE 3;
               SLIGHTLY
               PCES 4+6-8;

  Comments   : OXIDATION ZONES ALONG CRACK IN PCE 4,ALL PCES ARE
               JUST RUBBLE WITH NO STRATIGRAPHIC ORIENTATION,
               EXTERIOR SURFACE HAS SOME BLUE UNIDENT.MINS ON
               PCE 6;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CLAY.MINS
               PCES 3-4+6-7 HAVE BLUE OR GREEN CLAY.MINS FILLING,
               PCE 8 HAS EMPTY VESICLES,LARGE VUGS CONTAIN GREEN
               ENCRUSTATIONS;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

  Replacement: CLAY MINERALS
               GREEN IN VEINS,BLUE OR GREEN IN VESICLES & VUGS;

               UNIDENTIFIED
               GREEN UNIDENT.MINS IN VUGS,BLUE UNIDENT.MINS ON
               EXTERIOR OF PCE 6;


    

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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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