Table
T3. Lithologic units and subunits, Site 1198.
Unit
Sub-unit
Hole
1198A
Hole
1198B
Description
Interpretation
Core,
section,
interval (cm)
Depth
(mbsf)
Core,
section,
interval (cm)
Depth
(mbsf)
I
IA
1H-1,
0
7H-CC,
17
0.0
62.0
Skeletal
wackestone to grainstone with planktonic foraminifers, pteropods, and
variety of microfossils. Light gray to greenish gray.
Hemipelagic
setting (drift deposits)
IB
7H-CC,
17
22H-5,
18
62.0
200.6
Mudstone
to skeletal packstone with predominantly planktonic foraminifers. Light
greenish gray to olive-gray.
Hemipelagic
setting (drift deposits)
II
IIA
22H-5,
18
?
200.6
224.8
?
4R-1,
55
?
225.0
Skeletal
packstone to grainstone, predominantly fine grained with planktonic
foraminifers, abundant larger benthic foraminifers, and neritic material.
White to pale brownish white and slightly dolomitized.
Periplatform
setting
IIB
4R-1,
55
15R-1,
0
225.0
330.3
Skeletal
packstone to grainstone and skeletal grainstone/floatstone to rudstone,
coarse grained, with lepidocyclinids, rhodoliths, and corals. White to
pale yellow and slightly dolomitized.
Proximal
slope, periplatform setting
IIC
15R-1,
0
22R-1,
0
330.3
397.6
Skeletal
grainstone to packstone (brownish white), fine grained, and silt-sized
packstone to grainstone with clay. Light gray to light olive-gray and
slightly dolomitized between 330 and 360 mbsf.
Periplatform
setting
III
IIIA
22R-1,
0
27R-1,
144
397.6
447.1
Mudstone
to silt-sized packstone with clay, cyclic alternation of lithologies.
Light to dark greenish gray and slightly dolomitized. Occurrence of small
fining-upward sequences.
Hemipelagic
(deepening upward?); cyclic sedimentation
IIIB
27R-1,
144
33R-1,
23
447.1
503.6
Silt-sized
packstone to grainstone with more abundant glauconite (at base of subunit)
and less clay than Subunit IIIA. Light greenish gray to light olive-gray
and slightly dolomitized.
Hemipelagic
(deepening upward?); cyclic sedimentation, some influence of distal
periplatform shedding?
IV
33R-1,
23
34R-1,
23
503.6
513.2
Skeletal
floatstone/rudstone with larger benthic foraminifers (Cycloclypeus
sp.) and rhodoliths. White to light greenish gray.
Deep
shelf facies
V
34R-1,
23
513.2
Olivine
basalt with smectite-, hematite-, feldspar- and opal-(?) filled veins.
Dark gray.
Basement
Note: Depth: ? = not defined.