Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 950  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.95    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.95
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     26         5        69       1.78/ 55             56
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : FINE SAND                                                   
Screen Lith    : MICRONODULE RICH FORAMINIFERA RICH PELAGIC CLAY             
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  950/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.95    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.55
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        69       1.66/ 62             57
 
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Shipboard Lith : SAND AND GRAVEL                                             
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 420  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.92    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.42
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40         0        60           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : FE-MN GRAVEL (CRUST BRECCIA)                                
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CARBONATE LIMESTONE                 
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 400  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.02    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.42    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.40
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        60           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FE-MN SANDY GRAVEL                                          
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1200  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.70    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.20
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      2        10        88       1.43/ 76            121
 
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Shipboard Lith : "FINE" SAND                                                 
Screen Lith    : MICRONODULE RICH CARBONATE RICH PELAGIC CLAY                
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1200/1500  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    8.70    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.00    Age: EOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.30
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        88       1.42/ 77             32
 
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Shipboard Lith : SANDY GRAVEL                                                
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 590  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 431A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    9.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    9.59    Age: EOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.59
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        88           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : SANDY GRAVEL WITH ZEOL AND FE-MN FRAGS                      
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT

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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