In this chapter, we have assembled information that will help the reader to understand the observations on which our preliminary conclusions have been based and also help the interested investigator to select samples for further analysis. This information concerns only shipboard operations and analyses described in the site reports in the Initial Reports volume of the Leg 149 Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Methods used by various investigators for shore-based analyses of Leg 149 data will be described in the individual scientific contributions to be published in the Scientific Results volume.
The separate sections of the site chapters were written by the following shipboard scientists (authors are listed in alphabetical order, no seniority is implied):
Site Summary: Sawyer, Whitmarsh
Background and Objectives: Sawyer, Whitmarsh
Operations: Pollard, Klaus
Site Geophysics: Sawyer, Whitmarsh
Lithostratigraphy: Comas, Marsaglia, Milkert, Milliken, Ramirez, Wilson
Biostratigraphy: Collins, Gervais, de Kaenel, Liu
Paleomagnetism: Kanamatsu, Zhao
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry: Beslier, Cornen, Gibson, Seifert
Structural Geology: Beslier, Morgan
Organic Geochemistry: Meyers
Inorganic Geochemistry: Shaw
Physical Properties: Harry, Krawczyk, Morgan, Pinheiro
Downhole Measurements: Hobart, Lofts, Yin
Integration of Seismic Profiles with Observations from the Site: Whitmarsh
Downhole Temperature Measurements: Harry, Hobart, Sawyer
Summary and Conclusions: Sawyer, Whitmarsh
Following the text of all the site chapters, summary core descriptions ("barrel sheets") and photographs of each core are presented in a section called "Cores."
Core handling and shipboard scientific procedures, including the numbering of sites, holes, cores, sections, and samples were similar to those reported in previous Initial Reports volumes of the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program (Shipboard Scientific Party, 1993c). Procedures for handling of igneous rock are similar to those used for Leg 147 (Shipboard Scientific Party, 1993a).
At the end of the leg, the cores were transferred from the ship in refrigerated airfreight containers to cold storage at the East Coast Repository of the Ocean Drilling Program, at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York.
1Examples
of how to reference the whole or part of this volume can be found under "Citations"
in the preliminary pages of the volume.
2Shipboard
Scientific Party addresses can be found under "Shipboard
Scientific Party" in the preliminary pages of the volume.
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