Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 120  Analyst:
Hole:  57A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   328.22
Core:   4   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   320.60
Sect:  6    Top of Section Depth(m):   328.10

LITHOLOGY: NANNOPLANKTON CHALK OOZE AND BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : PORPHYRITIC, FRAGMENTS;

  Comments   : PROBABLY FRACTURED OFF FROM UNDERLYING BASALT DURING
               DRILLING;

  Vesicles   : AMYGDALOIDAL;


Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  120/ 320  Analyst:
Hole:  57A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   328.42
Core:   4   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   320.60
Sect:  6    Top of Section Depth(m):   328.22

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : PORPHYRITIC, APHANITIC;

  Structure  : DENSE;

  Alteration : FRESH

  Comments   : DARK GRAY, IN CONTACT WITH BAKED CHALK, CONTACT
               COULD BE "ARTIFICIAL" IN SENSE THAT ORIGINAL CONTACT
               WAS DISRUPTED DURING CORING;

  Vesicles   : AMYGDALOIDAL;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               LARGE PHENOS;

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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