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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 88    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  430/   0  Describer: Natland, J.
Hole: 581A  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   355.50   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   355.93   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 3

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: SUBOPHITIC, APHYRIC;

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE
             LARGE BLADED;

             CLINOPYROXENE
             PARTIALLY ENCLOSING*




Leg : 88    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1480/   0  Describer: Natland, J.
Hole: 581A  Top of Core Depth(m)   :   355.50   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   356.98   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 5H

ROCK = BASALT;
       Texture: SUBOPHITIC;

Phenocrysts- OLIVINE
             PALE GREEN CLAYS;

             PLAGIOCLASE
             LARGE BLADED, PARTLY BENT, SOME SKELETAL*

Groundmass - CLINOPYROXENE
             SUBOPHITIC CPX AROUND PLAG AND OL;

             SPINEL
             SMALL SPINELS OF BOTH OL AND PLAG*




    

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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