Priority:
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Primary for Expedition 317, alternate for Expedition 319
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Position:
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05°18.736′N, 126°16.997′W (WGS-84)
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Water depth (m):
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4362 (5.816 s TWT)
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Target drilling depth (mbsf):
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362 then tag basement
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Approved maximum penetration (mbsf):
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400 (approved by TAMU safety panel based on EPSP June 2006
recommendation)
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Survey coverage (track map; seismic profile):
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Roger Revelle (27–28 March 2006):
• Simrad EM-120 multibeam system
• Knudsen 320B subbottom profiler
• Dual 150 c.i. GI seismic sources
• Scripps 48-channel Geometrics GeoEel
Piston core: 12.67 m (RR0603-06JC)
Primary seismic line: PEAT-6 Line 8
Crossline: PEAT-6 Line 1 (Figs. F27, F28, F29) (see also report to the EPSP panel, available at eprints.soton.ac.uk/45921)
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Objective:
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Site PEAT-6C, on 26 Ma crust, focuses on the paleoceanographic events in
the late Oligocene and into the early and middle Miocene, including the climatically significant Oligocene–Miocene transition and its
recovery.
In conjunction with Sites PEAT-5C and 7C it is also designed to provide a
latitudinal transect for early Miocene age slices, as well as a limited depth transect.
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Drilling program:
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Preferred:
• Holes A, B, and C: APC with core orientation to refusal;
XCB to basement; logging in Hole A
Minimum:
• Hole A: APC/XCB to basement
• Holes B and C: wash to 100 m; APC/XCB to
basement
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Downhole measurement program:
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• Wireline logging: triple combo, FMS-sonic, possibly check
shot
• Temperature measurements: 3 APCT-3, 2 DVTP
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Nature of rock anticipated:
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Clay, radiolarian/nannofossil ooze, nannofossil ooze/chalk, possibility of
thin diatom layers, hydrothermically altered ridge basalt; low possibility of chert strings
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