Chemical composition of the red bed layer in DSDP Hole 38-336

• Main Authors: Kharin, Gennady S, Zangalis, K P
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1979
• Subjects: 38-336; Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg38; North Atlantic/Norwegian Sea; Norwegian Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.778844; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.778844

Clay minerals were studied in samples from the Eocene red bed layer of DSDP Hole 336. It is shown that composition and distribution of clay minerals have zoning, which is usually typical for the terrestrial crust of chemical weathering of basic rocks.