Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 650  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.65    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.65
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     50        35        88           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL OOZE                                          
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA OOZE                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 850  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.35    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.85
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     92         0         8           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL OOZE                                          
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE RICH FORAMINIFERA OOZE                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     92         2         6           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL OOZE                                          
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH CARBONATE OOZE                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.00    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     65         0        35           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAMINIFERAL OOZE                                          
Screen Lith    : MICRONODULE RICH FORAMINIFERA RICH CARBONATE OOZE           
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  500/1100  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.60    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.60
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         1        99           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FINE-GRAINED SAND                                           
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1100/1200  Age: 
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.60    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.70    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.10
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     72         0        28           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS OOZE                                             
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE OOZE                                              
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1200/1250  Age: 
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.70    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.75    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.05
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : SAND                                                        
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 150  Age: 
Hole: 432   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.85    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.00    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.15
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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     60         2        38           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS "VOLCANIC" MUD                                   
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH FORAMINIFERA RICH CARBONATE OOZE

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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