Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER EOCENE
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.50    Age: UPPER EOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.00    Age: 
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     55         2        43           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : MUDDY SAND                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CARBONATE OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER EOCENE
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.00    Age: UPPER EOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.50    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     55         2        43           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MUDDY SAND                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CARBONATE OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.50    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    7.00    Age: 
Sect:  3    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50         0        50           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MUDDY SAND                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CARBONATE OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: 
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.00    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.50    Age: 
Sect:  4    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     55         2        43       1.82/ 52            153
 
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Shipboard Lith : BEACH DEPOSIT OR SLUMP-"LANDSLIDE"                          
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CARBONATE LIMESTONE                 
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1080  Age: 
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    8.50    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.58    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.08
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        43           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : BEACH DEPOSIT--SLUMP OR LANDSLIDE                           
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: 
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    9.68    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.68    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        43           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : BEACH DEPOSIT                                               
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: 
Hole: 430   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.60    Age: 
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.60    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        43           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : SANDSTONE                                                   
Screen Lith    : SANDSTONE

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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