Table T3. Facies description and characteristics, Site 1165.
Facies
|
Description
|
Structure
|
Bioturbation
|
IRD
content
|
---|---|---|---|---|
I-1 | Yellowish gray to brown diatom clay and foraminifer-bearing diatom clay | Red color banding, red and dark mottling | Strong | Common |
I-2 | Interbedded greenish gray and dark grayish brown to dark gray diatom clay | Silt laminae, stringers | Strong | Rare |
I-3 | Dark grayish brown diatom ooze | Structureless | Strong | Rare |
I-4 | Deformed facies I-1 and I-2 | Flame-like injection structures, mud chips | Strong | Common |
II-1 | Greenish gray diatom clay | Structureless and burrowed | Moderate | Common |
II-2 | Dark gray diatom-bearing clay | Color banding, rare silt laminae | Moderate | Rare |
II-3 | Nannofossil chalk and nannofossil clay | Burrowed | Moderate | Absent |
III-1 | Dark gray to black claystone with silt partings and laminae | Planar lamination, rare cross-lamination | Rare | Rare |
III-2 | Greenish gray claystone and diatom-bearing claystone | Structureless/burrowed, rare lamination | Moderate | Common |
Note: IRD = ice-rafted debris.