Geochemistry and isotopes at DSDP Hole 79-546

• Main Authors: Holser, William T, Saltzman, Eric S, Brookins, Douglas G
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1984
• Subjects: 79-546; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg79; North Atlantic/PLATEAU; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.808523; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808523

At Site 546, below the Mazagan Escarpment at a water depth of 4 km, 36 m of salt rock was cored from the top of one of a field of salt domes. The core was studied by thin section and a variety of geochemical procedures. The salt rock contains 0.1 to 3% carnallite and lesser amounts of sylvite and po...