8. SITE 1080¹

HOLE 1080A

Position: 16°33.5803'S, 10°49.2029'E

Start hole: 0407 hr, 7 September 1997

End hole: 1730 hr, 7 September 1997

Time on hole: 13.38 hr

Seafloor (drill pipe measurement from rig floor, mbrf): 2777.2

Total depth (drill pipe measurement from rig floor, mbrf): 2829.3

Distance between rig floor and sea level (m): 11.4

Water depth (drill pipe measurement from sea level, m): 2765.8

Penetration (mbsf): 52.1

Coring totals:

    Type: APC

    Number: 6

    Cored: 50.8 m

    Recovered: 55.5 m (109.2%)

    Type: XCB

    Number: 1

    Cored: 1.3 m

    Recovered: 0.12 m (9.2%)

Lithology:

    Unit I: dark greenish gray to olive-gray, diatom-bearing and diatom-rich silty clays with varying abundances of nannofossils and foraminifers

¹Examples of how to reference the whole or part of this volume can be found under "Citations" in the preliminary pages of the volume.
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Reproduced online: 31 August 2007