Median grain size and distribution of sand in ODP Hole 108-660A (Fig. 5)

• Main Authors: Sarnthein, Michael, Faugeres, Jean-Claude
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1993
• Subjects: 108-660A; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Joides Resolution; Leg108; Median; grain size; North Atlantic Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Sample code/label; Size fraction > 0.063 mm; sand; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.763684; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763684

50 m of Middle Eocene pure radiolarian ooze were drilled at ODP Site 660 in the equatorial East Atlantic, 80 km northeast of the Kane Gap. The oozes comprise a 10 m high and 2 km broad mound of seismic reverberations, covered by manganese-rich sediment, and contain trace amounts of sponge spicules a...