OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM
LEG 159T - INITIAL REPORTS

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: SITE CHAPTER

Chapter 1: Site 958, p. 3-13.
J.V. Firth, P. Blum, S. Lindblom, K. Michels, W.W. Sager, and A. Winkler

Introduction, p. 3
Site summary, p. 3
Operations, p. 4
Core handling procedures, p. 5
Lithostratigraphy, p. 5
Biostratigraphy, p. 6
Sedimentation rates, p. 7
Paleomagnetics, p. 7
Carbonate geochemistry, p. 9
Physical properties, p. 9

SECTION 2: CORES

Core-description forms and core photographs for Site 958, p. 17.

Smear-slide description for Site 958, p. 35
(For JOIDES Advisory Groups and ODP Sample and Data Distribution Policy, please see ODP Proceedings, Initial Reports, Volume 158, pp. 375-384.)

The "data-only" CD-ROM in the back of this volume includes shipboard gamma-ray attenuation porosity evaluation (GRAPE), magnetic susceptibility, P-wave, and natural gamma data of cores collected on board the JOIDES Resolution during Leg 159T. CD-ROM production was conducted by the Borehole Research Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the wireline logging operator for ODP.

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