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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 150  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   36.00    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   36.15    Age: 
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        38           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : VOLCANIC SANDSTONE                                          
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH SANDSTONE                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  150/ 400  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   36.15    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   36.40    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       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 : VOLCANIC-IGNEOUS ROCKS                                      
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  400/ 500  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   36.40    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   36.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CONGLOMERATE                                                
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 100  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   41.50    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   41.60    Age: 
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CONGLOMERATE                                                
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  100/ 200  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   41.60    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   41.70    Age: 
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.55/ 68              6
 
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Shipboard Lith : VOLCANIC PEBBLE                                             
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  200/ 600  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   41.70    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   42.10    Age: 
Sect:  1    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         0       2.06/ 38             34
 
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Shipboard Lith : SANDSTONE                                                   
Screen Lith    : SAND                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  600/1500  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   42.10    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   43.00    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.90
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.88/ 49             77
 
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Shipboard Lith : BASALT                                                      
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 200  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   45.30    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   45.50    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.20
 
       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 : VOLCANIC PEBBLES                                            
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 55    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  200/ 300  Age: PALEOCENE
Hole: 432A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   45.40    Age: PALEOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   45.50    Age: 
Sect: CC    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : SANDY CLAYSTONE-SOIL HORIZON                                
Screen Lith    : CLAYSTONE                                                   
 
 
 
    

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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