Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   150       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 005%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.15    Clay: 095%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (90%);  PYRITE (01%);  MICRONODULE (01%);
CARBONATE (01%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);  NANNOFOSSIL (05%);
DIATOM (02%);  RADIOLARIA (01%);  SPICULE (01%);
IRON (01%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   680       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.68    Clay: 087%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: NANNO CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (87%);  CARBONATE (01%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);  DIATOM (01%);  RADIOLARIA (01%);
SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 010%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     1.41    Clay: 090%

Age : QUATERNARY
Name: CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (85%);  CARBONATE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (05%);  DIATOM (05%);  RADIOLARIA (01%);
SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   300       Sand: 002%   Sect:  1
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):   115.50    Silt: 035%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :   115.80    Clay: 063%

Age : UPPER PLIOCENE
Name: CLAYEY NANNOFOSSIL DIATOM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS (34%);  QUARTZ (02%);  HEAVY MINERAL (01%);
CLAY MINERAL (30%);  GLASS (00%);  GLAUCONITE (01%);
PYRITE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);  NANNOFOSSIL (30%);
DIATOM (27%);  RADIOLARIA (03%);  SPICULE (01%);
Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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SILICOFLAGELLATE (01%);  PLANT DEBRIS (01%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   330       Sand: 003%   Sect:  3
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):   115.50    Silt: 033%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :   118.83    Clay: 063%

Age : UPPER PLIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CLAYEY DIATOM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (33%);  MICA (01%);  GLAUCONITE (01%);
PYRITE (01%);  CARBONATE (02%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (23%);  DIATOM (38%);  RADIOLARIA (01%);
SPICULE (02%);  SILICOFLAGELLATE (01%);  CALCAREOUS SPICULE (01%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   480       Sand: 005%   Sect:  3
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):   115.50    Silt: 070%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :   118.98    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER PLIOCENE
Name: DIATOM CLAYEY SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (63%);  PYRITE (01%);  CARBONATE (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (05%);  CALCAREOUS SPICULE (01%);  DIATOM (30%);
RADIOLARIA (01%);  SPICULE (01%);  SILICOFLAGELLATE (01%);
PLANT DEBRIS (00%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   530       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):   115.50    Silt:
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :   119.03    Clay: 047%

Age : UPPER PLIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL MARL

Components:  ()
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CLAY MINERAL (48%);  PYRITE (01%);  CARBONATE (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (53%);



Leg : 75    Top Int Depth(mm):   650       Sand:        Sect:  5
Hole: 530   Top Core Depth(m):   115.50    Silt: 003%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :   122.15    Clay: 097%

Age : UPPER PLIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CARBONATE (00%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);  NANNOFOSSIL (95%);

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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