SITE 1065
Hole 1065A (40° 43.447'N, 11° 17.724'W)
Water Depth: 4770.1 mbsl
Penetration: 631.40 mbsf
Coring totals:
Type: RCB; Number: 35; Cored: 375.8 m; Recovered: 46.6 m; Average Recovery: 12.4%
Sedimentary sequence:
- Unit II: 251.0-308.8 mbsf; early Miocene; Nannofossil chalk and nannofossil claystone
- Unit V: 308.8-631.4 mbsf; Middle to Late Jurassic; Clay, claystone, and dolomitic claystone
SITE 1067
Hole 1067A (40° 40.950'N, 11° 35.750'W)
Water Depth: 5020.9 mbsl
Penetration: 855.6 mbsf
Coring totals:
Type: RCB; Number: 23; Cored: 207.6 m; Recovered: 77.67 m; Average Recovery: 37.4%
Sedimentary sequence:
- Subunit IIB: 648.0-763.8 mbsf; middle Eocene to early Paleocene; Claystone, calcareous claystone, calcareous siltstone to sandstone
Basement:
- Unit 1: 763.8-802.3 mbsf; strongly foliated amphibolite, tonalite gneiss
- Unit 2: 802.3-822.6 mbsf; matrix-supported amphibolite breccia
- Unit 3: 822.6-855.6 mbsf; foliated to weakly foliated amphibolite, meta-anorthosite
SITE 1068
Hole 1068A (40° 40.955'N, 11° 36.720'W)
Water Depth: 5043.9 mbsl
Penetration: 955.8 mbsf
Coring totals:
Type: RCB; Number: 29; Cored: 244.5 m; Recovered: 180.59 m; Average Recovery: 73.9%
Sedimentary sequence:
- Subunit IIB: 711.3-733.55 mbsf; middle to early Eocene; Calcareous claystone, claystone, and calcareous siltstone
- Subunit IIC: 733.55-853.0 mbsf; early Eocene to Maastrichtian; Claystone, calcareous claystone, nannofossil chalk, and calcareous sandy siltstone
Acoustic basement:
- Subunit IVA: 853.0-865.6 mbsf; Early Cretaceous nannofossils in calcareous matrix
Matrix-supported breccia with calcareous matrix; clasts of weakly to strongly foliated amphibolite, meta-anorthosites, and meta-gabbro
- Subunit IVB: 865.6-884.9 mbsf; matrix is barren of nannofossils
Clast-supported breccia with matrix of sand and silt-sized grains of clast material encased in calcite and Fe-oxyhydroxide; clasts are dominantly amphibolite
- Subunit IVC: 884.9-892.8 mbsf; matrix is barren of nannofossils
Cataclastic breccia with matrix of calcite, chlorite, albite, and Fe-oxyhydroxide; clasts of meta-anorthosite and metagabbro
Crystalline basement:
- Unit 1: 892.8-955.8 mbsf; serpentinite and serpentinized plagioclase peridotite
SITE 1069
Hole 1069A (40° 43.612'N, 11° 46.632'W)
Water Depth: 5074.8 mbsl
Penetration: 959.3 mbsf
Coring totals:
- Type: RCB; Number: 25; Cored: 240.5 m; Recovered: 96.3 m; Average Recovery: 40.0%
- Type: G; Number: 1; Cored: 0 m; Recovered 0.4 m; Average Recovery: N/A
Sedimentary sequence:
- Subunit IIB: 718.8-805.8 mbsf; middle Eocene to early Paleocene; Claystone, calcareous claystone, nannofossil chalk, and calcareous sandy siltstone
- Subunit IIC: 805.8-865.5 mbsf; early Paleocene to late Campanian; Claystone, calcareous sandstone, calcareous claystone, and nannofossil chalk
- Unit IV: 865.5-867.8 mbsf; Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Valanginian); Nannofossil chalk
- Subunit VA: 867.8-873.7 mbsf; Late Jurassic (Tithonian?); Conglomerate containing clasts of grainstone, boundstone, rudstone; minor clay
- Subunit VB: 873.7-959.3 mbsf; barren; meta-siltstone, meta-arkosic wacke, and dolomitic meta-arkose
SITE 1070
Hole 1070A (40° 47.779'N, 12° 43.430'W)
Water Depth: 5321.8 mbsl
Penetration: 718.8 mbsf
Coring totals: Type: RCB; Number: 14; Cored: 119.8 m; Recovered: 51.77 m; Recovery: 43.2%
Sedimentary sequence:
- Subunit IIC: 599.0-619.0 mbsf; late Eocene; claystone and silty claystone
- Unit III: 619.0-658.0 mbsf; barren; claystone and silty claystone
- Unit IV: 658.0-658.4 mbsf; late Aptian; nannofossil chalk, calcareous chalk, and breccia
Basement:
- Unit 1: 658.4-676.2 mbsf; poorly sorted breccia with serpentinite clasts in a calcite matrix
- Subunit 2A: 676.2-685.7 mbsf; very coarse-grained (pegmatitic) gabbro
- Subunit 2B: 685.7-718.8 mbsf; serpentinized peridotite