"Leg 207, Site 1260 Thin Section Data" Sample Mineral Biogenic Rock Leg Site H Cor CT Sct Top (cm) Bot (cm) Depth (mbsf) Thin Section Number Lithology Calcite Clay Barite Glauconite Opaque minerals Pyrite Muscovite Quartz Zeolite Bioclast Fish Remains Fecal pellets Foraminifers Planktonic Foraminifers Calcareous shell fragments Calcareous peloids Matrix Micrite Sparite Peloids Pebble Wackestone Organic matter Lithology Comments 207 1260 A 49 R CC 0 7 450.82 123 D 15 2 20 35 25 3 100 Foraminifer chalk with clay and fish remains Very peculiar facies. 207 1260 A 53 R 1 57 60 481.87 83 D 15 3 9 5 1 3 39 25 100 Wackestone "Bioclasts are mainly unidentifiable. 20% microspar and 5% sparite, and micrite constitutes matrix." 207 1260 A 53 R 2 20 24 483 84 D 5 1 1 20 20 11 22 19 1 100 "Limestone with fish debris, quartz, bioclasts and peloids" "Subrounded quartz. Bioclasts are mainly neomorphic spar. Pebble in this thin section is quartz wackestone containing quartz, glauconite, opaque minerals, fish debris, clayey micrite (80%). Peloids is micritic." 207 1260 A 53 R 2 126 129 484.06 85 5 13 1 81 100 Wackestone with quartz "One interesting ""quartz-ring"" biological? " 207 1260 A 54 R 3 50 53 491.1 86 D 20 5 20 * 55 100 Wackestone with quartz (and clay) "few pebbles with coarse-grained (""dirty"") calcite." 207 1260 B 28 R 1 34 36 377.24 87 M 85 10 5 100 Barite concretion Concretion is growing in foraminifer wackestone 207 1260 B 34 R 1 0 4 405.7 88 M 18 36 15 7 6 18 100 "Glauconitic sand with calcite, pyrite, and organic matter" Sediment is recrystallized black shale alternating with foraminifer sand. Glauconite grew later in sediment. 207 1260 B 34 R 2 115 119 408.35 94 20 2 * 1 25 20 20 12 100 Foraminifer wackestone with organic matter Laminated black shale rich in foraminifers (oriented parallel bedding plane). Foraminifers are filled with blocky calcite. Fecal pellets are micritic. Micrite is background micrite. 207 1260 B 34 R CC 13 16 413.5 93 D 30 5 1 15 49 100 Foraminifer wackestone Clay with organic matter. Microsparite. 207 1260 B 35 R 2 136 140 418.16 95 D 30 4 1 35 25 5 100 Foraminifer wackestone alternating with foraminifer packstone Alternating layers of foraminifer wackestone and foraminifer packstone. Foraminifers are filled with blocky calcite. 207 1260 B 35 R 3 135 139 419.65 96 D 60 10 2 1 5 10 10 2 100 Chalk Foraminifers are counted as sparite. Fecal pellet micrite. Micrite peloids. 207 1260 B 35 R 4 138 142 421.13 89 M 88 7 2 1 1 1 100 Diagenetic calcite layer Calcite replaces black shale. Micrite pellets. Foraminifers in black shale area. Organic debris in top part of thin section. 207 1260 B 35 R 5 6 10 421.31 90 M 90 5 5 100 Diagenetic calcite "CAUTION: broken, sharp edges. Coarse-grained diagenetic calcite." 207 1260 B 36 R 1 0 4 424.9 97 20 2 * 1 15 30 27 5 100 Foraminifer wackestone to packstone Laminated foraminifer-rich limestone with organic matter (oriented parallel bedding). Foraminifers are filled with blocky calcite. Fecal pellets are small and micritic. Micrite is background micrite. 207 1260 B 36 R 6 97 100 433.37 98 D/M 3 5 5 29 58 100 Foraminifer packstone (with fish debris) Fish debris is common. Sediment has laminated appearance. 207 1260 B 37 R 5 108 110 441.58 91 17 * 1 15 44 20 3 100 Foraminifer wackestone and packstone (alternating) The thin section includes clay and organic matter streaks/stringers. Foraminifers are filled with blocky calcite. 207 1260 B 42 R 2 10 12 483.68 92 M 3 15 10 30 42 100 Peloidal packstone with quartz and calcareous shell debris Pyrite replacement of peloidal material. Fish remains include phosphate.