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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1250/1500  Analyst:
Hole:  58B  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   145.60
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   136.60
Sect:  6    Top of Section Depth(m):   145.35

LITHOLOGY: BASALT, CARBONATE AND CLAY;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FRAGMENTS, SOME GLASS;

  Comments   : MOSTLY IN A SANDY AND SILTY CLAY MIXTURE, VARY IN
               COLORS BLACK, DARK GREEN, OLIVE-GREEN, RED AND
               COLORLESS, FRAGMENTS UP TO 8MM IN DIAMETER, SOME
               PALAGONITE ALSO PRESENT;


Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole:  58B  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   145.70
Core:   1   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   136.60
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   145.70

LITHOLOGY: BASALT, CARBONATE AND CLAY;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FRAGMENTS, SOME GLASS;

  Comments   : MOSTLY IN A SANDY AND SILTY CLAY MIXTURE, VARY IN
               COLORS BLACK, DARK GREEN, OLIVE-GREEN, RED AND
               COLORLESS, FRAGMENTS UP TO 8MM IN DIAMETER, SOME
               PALAGONITE ALSO PRESENT, SAME AS CORE 1-6;

  Replacement: PALAGONITE

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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