Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 59    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1170  Analyst: Ishi, Teruaki
Hole: 450   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   333.17
Core:  36   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   330.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   332.00

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg : 59    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1170/1500  Analyst: Ishi, Teruaki
Hole: 450   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   333.50
Core:  36   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   330.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   333.17

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-CPX-OL PHYRIC BASALT;
           PILLOW BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1A (117-133), 1B (133-140), 1C (141-150);

  Texture    : PHYRIC,TOP OF PCE 1A SEDIMENT CONTACT WITH DARK
               GREEN GLASS ZONE 2-3MM THICK UNDERLAIN WITH PALE-
               BROWN VARIOLITIC ZONE GRADING INTO A YELLOWISH-GRAY-
               TO-GRAY TRANSITIONAL ZONE WHICH IS FINE-GRAINED,
               GNDMASS HAS QUENCHED TEXTURE-FELTY & INTERSERTAL;

  Alteration : MOD

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):            Percent:    <5
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,ZEOL,SMEC

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               EUHEDRAL & IN GLOMEROCRYSTS;

  Groundmass : OLIVINE
               ANHEDRAL PSEUDOMORPHS;

  Replacement: CALCITE

               ZEOLITE

               SMECTITE


Leg : 59    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Ishi, Teruaki
Hole: 450   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   335.00
Core:  36   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   330.50
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   333.50

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-CPX-OL PHYRIC BASALT;
           PILLOW BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1A (1-11), 1B (11-20), 1C (20-26), 1D (26-35),
               2 (37-41), 3 (43-49), 4 (52-57), 5 (60-63),
               6 (65-73), 7 (75-78), 8 (80-89), 9A (90-93),
               9B (90-93), 9C (94-98), 10 (100-108), 11 (110-114),
               12 (117-125), 13 (127-130), 14A (133-141),
               14B (141-145), 14C (145-149);

  Texture    : SIMILAR TEXTURE & COMPOSITION TO CORE 36-2,PCES
               11-14A HAVE GLASSY RIMS;

  Alteration : MOD

  Comments   : UNDERSIDE PCES 3+9A+10 GREEN METAMORPHIC(?)
               SEDIMENT,TOP OF PCE 8 GREEN-TO-DARK-GREEN
               METAMORPHIC(?) SEDIMENT,SIDE OF PCE 9C GREEN
               METAMORPHIC(?) SEDIMENT,PCE 14C MARKS END OF CORE &
               OF SITE 450;

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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