Sample Family

=Hole, =Core, =Core-Section, =Core-Sample
The Sample Family shows a sub-sampling graph. Select entries to navigate samples. Core-Samples are issued to scientists on request. The naming convention for a Core-Sample is: Expedition_Site_Hole_Core_Section,from-to(cm). Hole, Core, and Core-Section are following the same schema respectively.

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    General Identifiers

    Program:ICDP
    Expedition:ICDP 5059
    Type:Core Section
    Name:5059_1_D_115_Z_2
    IGSN:ICDP5059ES6WIU2
    Parent IGSN:ICDP5059EC5R101
    Release Date:2019-4-1

    Sampling Location

    Latitude:63.3016081666667
    Longitude:-20.5998616666667
    Coordinate System:WGS84
    Elevation:-282.985
    Final Depth:-283.755
    Location Type:continental land
    Location Name:NN
    Location Description:Vetsmanneyjar Archipelago, Iceland's SE rift zone
    Country:Iceland
    Province:Surtsey Island
    County:South Coast
    City:NN

    Geology

    Material:Rock
    Rock Classification:VOL
    Rock Type:Tuff
    Rock Description (1): 341.115-341.43m
    • Interval: 341.115-341.43m
    • Major Lithology: Tuff
    • Comments: NN
    • Volcaniclastic Debris: Lithified to moderately consolidated; Color:Dark Olive Green-Green; Stratification:Crude (defined by variations in grain size and sorting); Granulometric:Coarse lapilli tuff-Coarse lapilli tuff breccia; Secondary Minerals:Y; within clast vesicles, intergranular space; Sorting:Very poor-poorly sorted; Support:Matrix supported; Grading:Massive; Alteration:Highly altered; Fractures:nn; Clast Types:lapilli (simple/zoned), composites, lithics; Matrix:Very coarse to medium ash with intergranular altered fines and secondary minerals; Lithic:4; Comments:Efflorescence (or whiteish-orange mineral crust) on core surface.
    Rock Description (2): 341.43-341.905m
    • Interval: 341.43-341.905m
    • Major Lithology: Tuff
    • Comments: NN
    • Volcaniclastic Debris: Well lithified; Color:Dark green; Stratification:Crude (defined by variations in grain size and sorting); Granulometric:Medium lapilli tuff (fines rich); Secondary Minerals:Y; within clast vesicles, matrix voids; Sorting:Poorly sorted; Support:Matrix supported; Grading:Massive; Alteration:Highly altered; Fractures:nn; Clast Types:lapilli (simple/zoned), composites, lithics; Matrix:Altered very fine-fine grained material with coarse to medium ash fragments; Lithic:4; Comments:Irregular upper and lower contacts
    Rock Description (3): 341.59-342.23m
    • Interval: 341.59-342.23m
    • Major Lithology: Tuff
    • Comments: NN
    • Volcaniclastic Debris: Lithified to moderately consolidated; Color:Dark Olive Green-Green; Stratification:Crude (defined by variations in grain size and sorting); Granulometric:Coarse lapilli tuff-Coarse lapilli tuff breccia; Secondary Minerals:Y; within clast vesicles, intergranular space; Sorting:Very poor-poorly sorted; Support:Matrix supported; Grading:Massive; Alteration:Highly altered; Fractures:nn; Clast Types:lapilli (simple/zoned), composites, lithics; Matrix:Very coarse to medium ash with intergranular altered fines and secondary minerals; Lithic:4; Comments:Efflorescence (or whiteish-orange mineral crust) on core surface.
    Rock Description (4): 341.755-342.525m
    • Interval: 341.755-342.525m
    • Major Lithology: Crystalline Basalt
    • Comments: NN
    • Volcaniclastic Debris: SEE CRYSTALLINE BASALT; Color:Blackish-gray; Stratification:nn; Granulometric:nn; Secondary Minerals:nn; Sorting:nn; Support:nn; Grading:nn; Alteration:nn; Fractures:filled-partly filled fractures/ joints (76C degrees, 55C degrees,45C degrees); Clast Types:nn; Matrix:nn; Comments:nn
    • Crystalline Basalt: Porphyritic; Vesicularity:Poor to microvesicular; Ves-Textures:Subspherical, convoluted, concentrated in domains; Jointing:highly fractured/jointed (76C degrees, 55C degrees,45C degrees); Phenocryst:Olivine, Feldspar (=1-2 mm); Phen-Abundance:10%; Contacts:Contact gone, fractured top of basalt core segment does not match up with fractured base of lapilli tuff; Comments:Microcrystalline groundmass, Olivine-plagioclase-phyric basalt.
    From Corrected Depth:341.12
    To Corrected Depth:341.89
    Depth Reference:meter below ground level
    Geological Age:quaternary-holocene
    Geological Unit:N/A

    Methods

    MSCLyes
    Lithological Descriptionyes
    Core Overviewyes
    Core Section Scanyes
    Core Catcher Scanno

    Drilling

    Drilling Method:
    Coring>RockCorer
    wireline diamond coring, PQ bit size
    Operator:
    DOSECC Exploration Services, UTAH, USA
    Surtsey Island, Iceland
    Funding Agency:International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
    Total Length:-341.115m
    Comments:N/A
    Platform Type:drill rig
    Platform Name:drill
    Platform Description:slimhole wireline coring system
    Chief Scientist:Marie D. Jackson
    Start Date:2017-08-27
    End Date:2017-09-06

    Repositories

    Current Repository:Icelandic Institute of Natural History in Gardabaer/Breiddalsvik, Iceland
    Current Repository Contact:Kristjan Jonasson: kristjan@ni.is
    Original Repository:N/A
    Original Repository Contact:N/A