Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: HOLOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       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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     50        35        15       1.42/ 76            129
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 950  Age: 
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.45    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.95
 
       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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     50        35        15       1.53/ 70             81
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  950/1300  Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.45    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.80    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.35
 
       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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     50        35        15       1.70/ 60             30
 
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Shipboard Lith : CHALK                                                       
Screen Lith    :  CHALK                                                      
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1300/1500  Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.80    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.20
 
       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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     40        25        15       1.72/ 58             18
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY CHALK                                                
Screen Lith    : MARLY CHALK                                                 
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40        25        15       1.74/ 58            129
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY CHALK                                                
Screen Lith    : MARLY CHALK                                                 
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.00    Age: 
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       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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     40        25        15       1.75/ 57            129
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY CHALK                                                
Screen Lith    : MARLY CHALK                                                 
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1080  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    6.00    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    7.08    Age: 
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.08
 
       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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     85         0        15       1.73/ 58             55
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY CHALK                                                
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL CHALK                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 160  Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Hole: 539A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    7.18    Age: UPPER OLIGOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    7.34    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.16
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40        25        15           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYEY CHALK                                                
Screen Lith    : MARLY CHALK

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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