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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :   297.50/  299.00
Hole:  57   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :   297.50
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 TUFFACEOUS MARL OOZE WITH RADS AND SPONGE;C 5GY7/2-GREY YELLOW GREEN,
10GY7/2-PALE YELLOW GREEN,10GY5/2-GREY GREEN,-WHITE;S WHITE CHALK OOZE 
LAYER 75-77 CM,WHITE CALCAREOUS PIECES,DARK LAYERS OF SULFIDE MATERIAL AND 
ASH,BURROWS FILLED WITH CHALKLY MATERIAL,DIAGENETIC LAMINATIONS;M SULPHIDE,
FERROUS IRON;O COLORS ARE MIXED WITH WHITE BEING LESS COMMON,LOOKS 
VOLCANIC BUT GLASS CONTENT IS INCONSISTENT;H HARD BUT GENERALLY SOFTER 
130-150 CM;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :   299.00/  300.50
Hole:  57   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :   297.50
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 NANNO FORAM CHALK OOZE;C 5GY7/2-GREY YELLOW GREEN,10GY5/2-GREY GREEN,
-GREY,-WHITE;S CYCLICAL ARRANGEMENT OF LAYERS WITH 2-5 CM OF LAMINATED 
GREY GREEN AND WHITE ALTERNATING WITH 10-15 CM LAYERS OF HEAVILY BURROWED 
LIGHT GREY GREEN;O GREY AND WHITE ARE MINORCOLORS;H VERY FIRM AND COMPACT;
Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :   327.70/  329.20
Hole:  57   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :   327.70
Core:   2   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 BASALT;C -DARK GREY;S HOLOCRYSTALLINE,NUMEROUS LARGE PYROXENE CRYSTALS 
AND PLAGIOCLASE LATHS;M LABRADORITE,AUGITE;O POSSIBLY DIABASE AS LITHOLOGY;
H VERY HARD;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :   329.20/  330.70
Hole:  57   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :   327.70
Core:   2   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 BASALT;C -DARK GREY;S HOLOCRYSTALLINE,NUMEROUS LARGE PYROXENE CRYSTALS 
AND PLAGIOCLASE LATHS;M LABRADORITE,AUGITE;O POSSIBLY DIABASE AS LITHOLOGY;
H VERY HARD;Z 00000000;Z 00000000

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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