(Table 1) Mineralogy at DSDP Leg 79 Holes

Four sites in the region of the Mazagan Plateau off northwest Africa were drilled during Leg 79 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Bulk mineralogy and clay mineralogy were analyzed from the Cenozoic sediments recovered from the four sites.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schumann, Dieter
Format:	Dataset
Language:	English
Published:	PANGAEA 1984
Subjects:	79-544A 79-544B 79-545 79-546 79-547 79-547A Apatite Calcite Chlorite Clay minerals Deep Sea Drilling Project Dolomite DRILL Drilling/drill rig DSDP DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation Elevation of event Event label Feldspar Glomar Challenger Gypsum Halite Illite Kaolinite Kaolinite+Chlorite Latitude of event Leg79 Lithologic unit/sequence Longitude of event Mixed layer clay minerals North Atlantic/PLATEAU Opal-CT Palygorskite Pyrite FeS2 Quartz Sample code/label Sepiolite Smectite X-ray diffraction (XRD) X-ray diffraction TEXTUR clay fraction North Atlantic
Online Access:	https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.808339 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808339

Description
Summary:	Four sites in the region of the Mazagan Plateau off northwest Africa were drilled during Leg 79 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Bulk mineralogy and clay mineralogy were analyzed from the Cenozoic sediments recovered from the four sites.