Chemical composition of basalts from the Atlantic Ocean

• Main Authors: Bryan, Wilfred B, Frey, Frederick A, Thompson, Geoffrey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1977
• Subjects: 11-100; 11-105; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg11; North Atlantic/BASIN; North Atlantic/HILL; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.667495; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667495

Basalt recovered beneath Jurassic sediments in the western Atlantic at Deep Sea Drilling Project sites 100 and 105 of leg 11 has petrographic features characteristic of water-quenched basalt extruded along modern ocean ridges. Site 100 basalt appears to represent two or three massive cooling units,...