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Table T1. Summary of shore-based experiments conducted on Leg 169 physical properties samples.
 
Unit/Subunit description Hole 856H
Hole 1035D
Hole 1035E
Hole 1035F
Hole 1035H
IP V
IP V
IP V
IP V
IP V
Turbidites and hemipelagic sediment

Subunit IIA: interbedded gray laminated hemipelagic claystone, and turbiditic bedded and cross-bedded siltstone and sandstone; sulfide disseminations and veins can occur but generally are <2% of the rock

9

5







2




1




1


Subunit IID: greenish gray, chloritic siltstone and mudstone with rare interbeds of fine-grained sandstone

1




1








1

1



4

1
Sulfide feeder zone and mineralized sediments

Subunit VIA: sulfide (pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite/isocubanite/pyrite)-veined, moderately to intensely indurated and hydrothermally altered mudstone, siltstone, sandstone (10%-50% sulfide)

6

1











3

1


1

Subunit VIB: siltstone with sulfide (pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite/isocubanite/pyrite) veins and disseminations (2%-10% sulfide)

4

2



1

1







4

3



7

2

Subunit VIC: sulfide (pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite/isocubanite/pyrite)-banded sandstone (10%-50% sulfide)

3












1




1

1
Massive and semimassive sulfide (>50% sulfide)

Subunit VA (Type 1 of Leg 139): fine-grained, homogeneous pyrrhotite/sphalerite/isocubanite/chalcopyrite





1














Subunit VC: clast-supported massive sulfide breccia composed of pyrite-dominant clasts in fine-grained matrix of marcasite, black iron-rich sphalerite with minor chalcopyrite, isocubanite, pyrrhotite; also neoplastic pyrite infilled and replaced by black sphaleritic, magnetitic clays, minor chalcopyrite with sediment altered to chlorite and minor epidote

















4

2

Subunit VD (Type 5 of Leg 139): colloform and vuggy pyrite













5

3




Basaltic sills and flows

Unit VII: slightly to intensely altered cryptocrystalline basaltic sills intercalated with highly indurated gray hemipelagic and turbiditic sediment

4

2

















Unit VIII: pale to medium green, fine-grained, slightly to highly altered pillow lavas and hyaloclastic basalts with quartz-chlorite-Cu-Fe sulfide/pyrrhotite veins

3

1

















Total samples:

30

11



3

1



2

0



15

8



18

6

Notes: Brief lithologic descriptions and site/hole information for each sample from Shipboard Scientific Party (1998b). IP = index properties measurements, V = velocity measurements.

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