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SITE 1202: KUROSHIO CURRENT

Principal Results

Because Site 1202 was drilled only hours out of port at the end of the leg, only minimal shipboard analysis consisting of MST and paleomagnetic studies on whole-round samples, preliminary dating of core catcher samples, sedimentological descriptions of split cores from Hole 1210A, and whole-round sampling for shore-based geochemical studies was performed during Leg 195. Detailed descriptions of the core will be prepared by a shore-based party assembled for the purpose at College Station, Texas. Preliminary examination of the core catcher samples suggests that the entire 410-m section recovered at Site 1202 consists of rapidly deposited dark gray calcareous silty clay with occasional interbedded sandy layers. The oldest microfossils observed were <127 ka in age, making the sedimentation rate at least 325 cm/k.y.

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