Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1050       Sand: 062%   Sect:  1
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 019%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.05    Clay: 019%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: DIATOM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  CARBONATE (07%);  NANNOFOSSIL (07%);
DIATOM (70%);  RADIOLARIA (04%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1270       Sand: 015%   Sect:  1
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 027%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.27    Clay: 048%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  CARBONATE (43%);  ZEOLITE (02%);
NANNOFOSSIL (25%);  FORAMINIFERA (20%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand: 033%   Sect:  1
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 018%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.40    Clay: 049%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: NANNO MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (09%);  CARBONATE (15%);  ZEOLITE (03%);
NANNOFOSSIL (28%);  FORAMINIFERA (15%);  PTEROPOD (10%);
LAMELLIBRANCH (02%);  DIATOM (10%);  RADIOLARIA (05%);
SPICULE (03%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):    50       Sand: 024%   Sect:  2
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 029%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.55    Clay: 047%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: BROWN RAD-ZEOLITE CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (12%);  CARBONATE (20%);  ZEOLITE (12%);
GLASS (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (15%);  FORAMINIFERA (03%);
RADIOLARIA (10%);  DIATOM (05%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   280       Sand: 019%   Sect:  2
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 037%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.78    Clay: 054%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: SILTY CARBONATE OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CARBONATE (39%);  ZEOLITE (02%);  OPAQUE MINERAL (09%);
NANNOFOSSIL (20%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);  PTEROPOD (10%);
DIATOM (04%);  RADIOLARIA (04%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 012%   Sect:  2
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 038%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.80    Clay: 050%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: SILTY CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (05%);  CARBONATE (50%);  ZEOLITE (05%);
NANNOFOSSIL (25%);  FORAMINIFERA (10%);  LAMELLIBRANCH (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1450       Sand: 032%   Sect:  3
Hole:  58A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 042%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     4.48    Clay: 026%

Age : NEOGENE
Name: SANDY SKELETAL SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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GLASS (02%);  IRON (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (12%);

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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