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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 66    Top Int Depth(mm):   620       Sand: 010%   Sect:  1
Hole: 486A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.62    Clay: 050%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: MUD (SILTY CLAY)

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS (98%);  QUARTZ (45%);  FELDSPAR (02%);
MICA (01%);  HEAVY MINERAL (03%);  CLAY MINERAL (48%);
NANNOFOSSIL (01%);  RADIOLARIA (02%);  SPICULE (02%);
PLANT DEBRIS (01%);



Leg : 66    Top Int Depth(mm):   200       Sand: 020%   Sect:  2
Hole: 486A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 075%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.70    Clay: 005%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS (95%);  QUARTZ (80%);  FELDSPAR (10%);
MICA (02%);  HEAVY MINERAL (03%);  CLAY MINERAL (05%);
FORAMINIFERA (02%);  NANNOFOSSIL (02%);  DIATOM (02%);
PLANT DEBRIS (05%);



Leg : 66    Top Int Depth(mm):    20       Sand: 060%   Sect: CC
Hole: 486A  Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 030%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.50    Clay: 010%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: SANDY MUD (SILTY SAND)

Components:  (, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (66%);  FELDSPAR (20%);  MICA (03%);
HEAVY MINERAL (01%);  CLAY MINERAL (10%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);
SPICULE (02%);  PLANT DEBRIS (02%);



Leg : 66    Top Int Depth(mm):   100       Sand: 030%   Sect: CC
Hole: 486A  Top Core Depth(m):    14.50    Silt: 025%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :    15.20    Clay: 045%

Name: SANDY MUD (MUDDY FINE SAND)

Components:  (, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (42%);  FELDSPAR (01%);  MICA (02%);
HEAVY MINERAL (03%);  CLAY MINERAL (45%);  CARBONATE (05%);
SPICULE (02%);  PLANT DEBRIS (02%);

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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