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Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   100       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.10    Clay: 070%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: ZEOLITE RED CLAY WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (65%);  ZEOLITE (14%);  GLASS (05%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (16%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 009%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.40    Clay: 091%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (87%);  CARBONATE (02%);  ZEOLITE (04%);
GLASS (04%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (07%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand: 010%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.00    Clay: 065%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: ZEOLITE RED CLAY WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (55%);  ZEOLITE (26%);  GLASS (05%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (14%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1100       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 016%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.11    Clay: 079%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN SILTY CLAY WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (70%);  ZEOLITE (03%);  GLASS (17%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (10%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   200       Sand: 003%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 017%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.70    Clay: 080%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: ZEOLITIC RED CLAY WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (20%);  ZEOLITE (17%);  GLASS (07%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (06%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1080       Sand:        Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 022%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.58    Clay: 081%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (65%);  CARBONATE (03%);  GLASS (10%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (15%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 020%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.80    Clay: 075%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: ZEOLITIC RED CLAY WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (65%);  ZEOLITE (18%);  GLASS (06%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (11%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   700       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 011%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     3.70    Clay: 089%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (84%);  CARBONATE (01%);
ZEOLITE (06%);  GLASS (02%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand:        Sect:  4
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 011%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     5.30    Clay: 089%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (82%);  CARBONATE (01%);
GLASS (05%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand:        Sect:  5
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 013%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     6.80    Clay: 087%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (00%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (85%);
CARBONATE (01%);  ZEOLITE (07%);  GLASS (06%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 004%   Sect:  6
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 016%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     8.80    Clay: 080%

Age : PLIOCENE
Name: BROWN ZEOLITIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (67%);  CARBONATE (01%);  ZEOLITE (15%);
GLASS (08%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (09%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1450       Sand: 041%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 026%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    23.10    Clay: 034%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RAD-VOLCANIC MUDDY SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (27%);  CARBONATE (03%);
ZEOLITE (03%);  GLASS (55%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (00%);
FORAMINIFERA (01%);  RADIOLARIA (10%);  SPICULE (01%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1450       Sand: 047%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 030%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    24.57    Clay: 023%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: MUDDY RAD-VOLCANIC SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (14%);  ZEOLITE (06%);  GLASS (65%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (08%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);  RADIOLARIA (08%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   650       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 077%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    25.25    Clay: 023%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: WELL SORTED VOLCANIC SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CARBONATE (04%);  ZEOLITE (02%);  GLASS (72%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (15%);  FORAMINIFERA (04%);  RADIOLARIA (03%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1000       Sand: 010%   Sect:  3
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 025%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    25.60    Clay: 070%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: BROWN SILTY ZEOLITIC RAD CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (55%);  ZEOLITE (10%);  GLASS (10%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (10%);  RADIOLARIA (20%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   300       Sand: 030%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 045%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    26.40    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILTY VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (58%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (20%);
RADIOLARIA (10%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand: 030%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 050%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    26.50    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RAD

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (55%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (25%);
DIATOM (03%);  RADIOLARIA (04%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  0070       Sand: 030%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 040%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    26.17    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILTY VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (00%);  GLASS (55%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (23%);
RADIOLARIA (08%);  SPICULE (04%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   120       Sand: 035%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 045%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    27.72    Clay: 020%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (40%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (14%);
RADIOLARIA (15%);  SPICULE (01%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   170       Sand: 035%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 040%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    27.77    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (45%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (23%);
RADIOLARIA (18%);  SPICULE (04%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   400       Sand: 030%   Sect:  6
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 045%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    29.50    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS AND NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (05%);  GLASS (35%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (23%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);  RADIOLARIA (20%);  SPICULE (07%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 020%   Sect:  6
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    21.60    Silt: 055%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    30.40    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS AND NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (05%);  GLASS (46%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (14%);
NANNOFOSSIL (15%);  RADIOLARIA (16%);  SPICULE (04%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  0050       Sand: 025%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 045%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    53.35    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS AND NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (40%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (18%);
NANNOFOSSIL (05%);  RADIOLARIA (21%);  SPICULE (06%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1500       Sand: 020%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 040%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    54.80    Clay: 040%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS AND NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (15%);  GLASS (45%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (19%);
NANNOFOSSIL (08%);  RADIOLARIA (10%);  SPICULE (03%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   300       Sand: 030%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 040%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    55.10    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (45%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (26%);
RADIOLARIA (13%);  SPICULE (06%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 030%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 050%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    56.10    Clay: 020%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILT VOLCANIC ASH WITH RAD AND NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (42%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (23%);
NANNOFOSSIL (03%);  RADIOLARIA (17%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   100       Sand: 025%   Sect:  3
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 040%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    56.40    Clay: 035%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: SANDY SILTY VOLCANIC ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (35%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (25%);
NANNOFOSSIL (05%);  RADIOLARIA (14%);  SPICULE (11%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1200       Sand: 015%   Sect:  3
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 030%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    57.50    Clay: 055%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: VOLCANIC MUD SILTY WITH NANNOS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (20%);  GLASS (28%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (27%);
NANNOFOSSIL (25%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand: 005%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 048%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    58.60    Clay: 047%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: MUDDY VOLCANIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (27%);  ZEOLITE (04%);  GLASS (55%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (10%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (00%);  NANNOFOSSIL (06%);
RADIOLARIA (01%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   700       Sand: 010%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 045%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    60.00    Clay: 055%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: MUDDY VOLCANIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (25%);  GLASS (60%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (10%);
NANNOFOSSIL (15%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1260       Sand: 100%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt:
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    60.56    Clay:

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: VOLCANIC SAND

Components:  (Minor lithology)
======================================================================
GLASS (80%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (20%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole:  53A  Top Core Depth(m):    53.30    Silt: 046%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    62.40    Clay: 045%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: VOLCANIC SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (15%);  GLASS (60%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (10%);
NANNOFOSSIL (15%);  SPICULE (01%);

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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