Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  700/1250  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.70    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.25    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.55
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     14        76        10       1.22/ 88             29
 
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Shipboard Lith : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
Screen Lith    : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1250/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.25    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     78         9        13       1.38/ 79             26
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO MARL OOZE                                             
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH CARBONATE RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 200  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.70    Age: MIOCENE
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     68        20        12       1.38/ 79             21
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : RAD AND ZEOLITE CLAY                                        
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH CARBONATE RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  200/ 450  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.70    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.95    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     79        10        11       1.60/ 66             26
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CARBONATE OOZE                                        
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH CARBONATE RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  450/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.95    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.05
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     90         0        10       1.82/ 53            112
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CHALK OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH CARBONATE CHALK                            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 670  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.67    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.67
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.58/ 67             68
 
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Shipboard Lith : OOZE                                                        
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  670/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.67    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.83
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     98         0         2       1.60/ 66             86
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SANDY SKELETAL SILT                                         
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE                          
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :    0/   0  Age: NEOGENE
Hole:  58A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.60    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.60    Age: MIOCENE
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35         2           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : NANNO CHALK OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE

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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