Sediment Smear Slide/Thin Section
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	Exped.
	Site
	Hole
	Core
	Type
	Sec
	Top Bottom
	
	307
	U1317
	E
	3
	H	6
	020cm

	

Sediment/Rock
Name

	Observer
J. M. Gregg	
	
Smear Slide
	Thin Section
	Coarse Fraction
	Grain Mount
	
	Dominant Lithology
	Minor Lithology
	
	Percent Texture
	
								Sand
	Silt
	Clay
	
X

	

	

	

Percent
	Component
	
	Percent
	Component
	
MINERAL
	
	BIOGENIC

	Accessory Minerals

	Algae

	Carbonate
	
	M
	Bioclasts (silt & sand sized grains of carbonate debris)

	calcite

	Coral

	dolomite

	Diatoms

	inorganic calcite

	Dinoflagellate

	organic calcite

	Ebridians

	Clay

	Fish Remains
	
tr
	Feldspar

	Foraminifers

	plagioclase

	• benthic foraminifers

	Fe-oxide
		
	• planktonic foraminifers

	Glauconite

	Nannofossils

	Mica
	
	M
	Coccolith

	biotite
		
	Discoasters

	muscovite
		tr
	Organic Debris
	
tr
	Opaque Minerals

	plant debris
	
M
	Quartz mainly silt sized

	Pollen

	Volcanic Glass

	Fteropod

	Zeolite
		
	Radiolarians

	clinoptilolite
		
	Silicoflagellates

	phillipsite
		
	Sponge Spicules
	
tr
	fe-mg minerals

	siliceous sponge spicule

	

	Spores

	

	
ROCK

	

	Bioclasts

	

	Carbonate Grains

	

	Cement 

	

	Clasts

	

	Micrite

	

	Ooids

	

	Rock Fragments

	

	Shell Debris

	

	Volcanic Ash