Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        68       1.56/ 68            158
 
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Shipboard Lith : (SANDY) DIAT MUD                                            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH MUD                                             
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1        27        72       1.53/ 70            154
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : PEBBLE-BEARING (SANDY) DIAT MUD                             
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                           
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1330  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.33    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.33
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        27        73       1.55/ 69            135
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : (SANDY) DIAT MUD                                            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                           
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1330/1500  Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.33    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.17
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        45        55       1.51/ 71             18
 
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Shipboard Lith : MUDDY DIAT OOZE                                             
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH DIATOM MUD                                
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.00    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        55       1.50/ 72            153
 
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Shipboard Lith : (SANDY) DIAT MUD                                            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH MUD                                             
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.00    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    7.50    Age: 
Sect:  5    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        22        78       1.50/ 71            154
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : (ASHY+SANDY)DIAT MUD                                        
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                           
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 650  Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.50    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.15    Age: 
Sect:  6    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        24        76           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : (SANDY) DIAT MUD                                            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                           
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   30/ 150  Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    8.28    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.40    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.12
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        76           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : (SANDY) DIAT MUD                                            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH MUD                                             
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  151.00    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  152.50    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        76           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : DIAT-SPIC MUDSTONE                                          
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH MUDSTONE                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  152.50    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  154.00    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        30        70           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DIAT-SPIC MUDSTONE                                          
Screen Lith    : SPICULE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUDSTONE                     
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  154.00    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  155.50    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      2        28        70           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DIAT-SPIC MUDSTONE                                          
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUDSTONE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 56    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1280  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 434A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  155.50    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  156.78    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.28
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      2        26        72           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DIAT-SPIC MUDSTONE                                          
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUDSTONE

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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