Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 79    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1150/1170  Describer: Moore, C.
Hole: 547B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   734.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   2   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   738.16   Sect/Pc #:  3/

ROCK = GRANITE
       HIGHLY ALTERED;
       Texture: COARSE
       WITH VEINS*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE

             QUARTZ

             ALKALI FELDSPAR
             CALCIFIED;

             ILMENITE

Alteration - CHLORITE
             WITH INTERLAYERED CALCITE,MYLONITIC BOUNDARIES AND
             CALCITE VEINS THROUGHOUT,CHLORITE AND ILMENITE
             THROUGHOUT,SERICITE WITH K-FELDSPAR;

             CALCITE

             SERICITE
             Location: THROUGHOUT

             KFELDSPAR




Leg : 79    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1150/1171  Describer: Moore, C.
Hole: 547B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   734.00   Rock Type: SEDIMENTARY
Core:   2   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   738.16   Sect/Pc #:  3/

ROCK = SANDSTONE
       CALCAREOUS;
       Texture: COARSE-GRAINED*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE
             Morphology: ANGULAR-SUBHEDRAL
             IN CEMENT OF SILTY SPAR;

             ORTHOPYROXENE

             QUARTZ
             SOME COMPOSITE,MYLONITIC GRAINS;

             ALKALI FELDSPAR
             HIGHLY ALTERED;

             OTHER
             "GRANITE" FRAGMENTS-QUARTZ AND PLAG COMPOSITES*

Alteration - CARBONATE                 (   40%)

             OTHER                     (   60%)
             SAND-SILT*




Leg : 79    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  180/ 210  Describer: Moore, C.
Hole: 547B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   354.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core: H 3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   354.20   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = GRANITE;
       Texture: COARSE-GRAINED,PHYRIC*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE
             SLIGHTLY GRANULAR,MYLONITIC TEXTURE BETWEEN SOME
             QUARTZ AND K-FELDSPAR GRAINS;

             ORTHOPYROXENE

             QUARTZ

             ALKALI FELDSPAR

Alteration - BIOTITE

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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