Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 790  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.79    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.79
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CRYSTAL VITRIC MUD                                          
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH MUD                                              
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  280/1450  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.78    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.95    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.17
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      0         0         0       2.07/ 38              3
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC MUD                                                  
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH MUD                                              
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1350  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.35    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.35
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      1         0        99       2.35/ 21              3
 
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Shipboard Lith : MUD                                                         
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH CLAY                                      
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 410  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.91    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.41
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CRYSTAL MUD                                                 
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  450/1120  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.95    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.62    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.67
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        25        75           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CRYSTAL MUD                                                 
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   20/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.02    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    7.50    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.48
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      0         0       100           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC CRYSTAL MUD                                          
Screen Lith    : FELDSPAR RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                         
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 520  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.50    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.02    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.52
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC CRYSTAL MUD WITH PEBBLES                             
Screen Lith    : FELDSPAR RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                         
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 130  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    8.13    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    8.26    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.13
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         2        98           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : VITRIC CRYSTAL MUD                                          
Screen Lith    : FELDSPAR RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH MUD                         
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1380  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   11.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   12.38    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.38
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : VERY COARSE SAND                                            
Screen Lith    : FELDSPAR RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH SANDY MUD                   
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 180  Age: 
Hole: 461   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   12.48    Age: 
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   12.66    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.18
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC MUD                                                  
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH MUD

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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