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Leg : 57    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  450/ 500  Describer:
Hole: 439   Top of Core Depth(m)   :  1096.50   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  32   Sample Midpoint(m)     :  1098.48   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = DACITE;
       Texture: HYALOOPHITIC-INTERSERTAL,
       Where sampled: PEBBLE*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (    8%)
             Size(mm): TO 1.8X1.2  Morphology: EUHEDRAL-SUBHEDRAL
             APPROX COMP AN40, HIGHLY ZONED;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   TR%)
             Size(mm):  0.34X0.08
             COMPLETELY ALTERED;

             BIOTITE                   (   TR%)
             COMPLETELY ALTERED;

             HORNBLENDE                (    5%)
             Size(mm):   0.4X0.25
             HIGHLY ALTERED;

             KFELDSPAR                 (    1%)
             Size(mm):    0.8X0.5  Morphology: SUBHEDRAL-ANHEDRAL
             PERTHITE*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   45%)
             Size(mm):  0.17X0.03  Morphology: LATHS
             APPROX COMP AN20;

             MAGNETITE                 (    4%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL
             VERY FINE GRAINED;

             QUARTZ                    (    7%)
             Size(mm):   0.1X0.07  Morphology: ANHEDRAL
             WITH CHALCEDONY;

             ALKALI FELDSPAR           (   25%)
             Size(mm):  0.17X0.05  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

Alteration - CHLORITE                  (    5%)
             Replacing: CPX,HBL,BIOTITE

             CHALCEDONY




Leg : 57    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  560/ 570  Describer:
Hole: 439   Top of Core Depth(m)   :  1096.50   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  32   Sample Midpoint(m)     :  1098.57   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = DACITE;
       Texture: INTERSERTAL;
       Where sampled: PEBBLE*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (    5%)
             Size(mm):    0.9X0.4  Morphology: EUHEDRAL-SUBHEDRAL
             ZONED;

             KFELDSPAR                 (    2%)
             Size(mm):    0.6X0.7  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             MAFICS                    (    2%)
             COMPLETELY ALTERED*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   40%)
             Size(mm):   0.1X0.02  Morphology: LATHS
             APPROX COMP AN20;

             MAGNETITE                 (    4%)
             VERY FINE GRAINED;

             QUARTZ                    (   12%)
             Size(mm):  0.06X0.09  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             ALKALI FELDSPAR           (   30%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL

Alteration - CHALCEDONY                (    3%)
             Location: GROUNDMASS
             SPHERULITIC

             CHLORITE                  (    2%)
             Location: PHENOCRYSTS    Replacing: MAFICS
             SPHERULITIC*




Leg : 57    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  950/ 960  Describer:
Hole: 439   Top of Core Depth(m)   :  1106.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  33   Sample Midpoint(m)     :  1106.96   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = DACITE;
       Texture: INTERSERTAL;
       Where sampled: BOULDER*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (   16%)
             Size(mm):  2.35X1.65  Morphology: EUHEDRAL
             APPROX COMP AN38,HIGHLY ZONED WITH INCLUSIONS,
             SIZE GIVEN IS A MAXIMUM;

             QUARTZ                    (   TR%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             MAFICS                    (    8%)
             Size(mm): TO 1.8X.41  Morphology: EUHEDRAL-ANHEDRAL
             MAY HAVE BEEN BIOTITE+HORNBLENDE, COMPLETELY
             ALTERED TO CLAY.MINS;

             KFELDSPAR                 (    1%)
             Size(mm):   0.8-0.48

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   30%)
             Size(mm):  0.15X0.03  Morphology: LATHS
             APPROX COMP AN25;

             GLASS                     (   10%)
             COMPLETELY DEVITRIFIED AND NOW REPLACED BY CLAYS;

             QUARTZ                    (   11%)

             ALKALI FELDSPAR           (   18%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL

Alteration - CLAY MINERALS             (   18%)
             Location: INTERSTITIAL   Replacing: MAFICS,GLASS
             Location: GLASS,PHENOS




Leg : 57    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  730/ 740  Describer:
Hole: 439   Top of Core Depth(m)   :  1125.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  35   Sample Midpoint(m)     :  1125.74   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = DACITE;
       Texture: INTERSERTAL-INTERGRANULAR;
       Where sampled: BOULDER*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (   14%)
             Size(mm):    2.2-1.3  Morphology: EUHEDRAL
             APPROX COMP AN46;

             HORNBLENDE                (   TR%)
             Size(mm):    0.7X0.2  Morphology: SUBHEDRAL
             BROWNISH GREEN PLEICHROISM;

             MAFICS                    (    7%)

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   53%)
             Size(mm):  0.08X0.03  Morphology: LATHS
             APPROX COMP AN25;

             GLASS                     (   10%)
             DEVITRIFIED;

             QUARTZ                    (    9%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             ALKALI FELDSPAR           (    7%)
             Morphology: ANHEDRAL

Alteration - CLAY MINERALS             (   17%)
             Location: INTERSTITIAL
             Location: GLASS,PHENOS

             MUSCOVITE                 (   TR%)




Leg : 57    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  650/ 660  Describer:
Hole: 439   Top of Core Depth(m)   :  1134.50   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  36   Sample Midpoint(m)     :  1136.66   Sect/Pc #:  2/

ROCK = HORNBLENDE DACITE;
       Texture: INTERSERTAL-HYALOOPHITIC;
       Where sampled: BOULDER*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (   18%)
             Size(mm):   2.5X1.65
             APPROX COMP AN40, ZONED, SIZE GIVEN IS A MAXIMUM;

             BIOTITE                   (   TR%)
             ALTERED;

             MAFICS                    (   11%)
             MAY BE HORNBLENDE;

             HORNBLENDE                (    3%)
             Size(mm):    2.0X0.4
             HIGHLY ALTERED;

             KFELDSPAR                 (    1%)
             Size(mm):    2.0X0.9

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   30%)
             Size(mm):  0.15X0.04  Morphology: LATHS
             APPROX COMP AN28;

             MAGNETITE                 (    5%)
             Size(mm): TO    0.05
             VERY FINE GRAINED;

             GLASS                     (    7%)
             COMPLETELY ALTERED TO CLAY.MINS;

             ORTHOPYROXENE             (   TR%)
             ID UNCERTAIN FOR OPX;

             QUARTZ                    (    8%)
             Size(mm):       0.03  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             ALKALI FELDSPAR           (   17%)
             Size(mm):  0.08X0.03  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

Alteration - CARBONATE                 (   TR%)

             CLAY MINERALS             (   18%)
             Location: INTERSTITIAL   Replacing: BIOTITE,GLASS,HBL,MAFICS
             Location: GLASS,PHENOS




    

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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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