Abrams, Lewis J. and Hu, Ming (2000): Depth to volcanic basement at Site 999, Kogi Rise, Colombian Basin

Leg/Site/Hole:
ODP 165
ODP 165 999
Identifier:
2000-062891
georefid

10.2973/odp.proc.sr.165.028.2000
doi

Creator:
Abrams, Lewis J.
University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, United States
author

Hu, Ming
University of Rhode Island, United States
author

Identification:
Depth to volcanic basement at Site 999, Kogi Rise, Colombian Basin
2000
In: Leckie, R. Mark, Sigurdsson, Haraldur, Acton, Gary D., Abrams, Lewis J., Bralower, Timothy J., Carey, Steven N., Chaisson, William P., Cotillon, Pierre, Cunningham, Andrew D., D'Hondt, Steven L., Droxler, Andre W., Galbrun, Bruno, Gonzalez, Juan, Haug, Gerald H., Kameo, Koji, King, John W., Lind, Ida L., Louvel, Veronique, Lyons, Timothy W., Murray, Richard W., Mutti, Maria, Myers, Greg, Pearce, Richard B., Pearson, D. Graham, Peterson, Larry C., Roehl, Ursula, Garman, Phyllis (editor), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, scientific results, Caribbean Ocean history and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary event; covering Leg 165 of the cruises of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, Miami, Florida, to San Juan Puerto Rico, sites 998-1002, 19 December 1995-17 February 1996
Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States
165
219-224
Site 999 was positioned near the crest of Kogi Rise based on the images from multichannel seismic (MCS) Line CT1-12a. One of the objectives at Site 999 was to reach volcanic basement and sample oceanic plateau crust in the Colombian Basin for the first time. Although this objective was not obtained, Site 999 is fully cased to approximately 525 meters below seafloor (mbsf), reaches a total depth of 1066.4 mbsf, and remains a high-priority target for future investigations of large igneous provinces through scientific drilling. Downhole log-generated synthetic seismograms are used to determine total two-way traveltime (TWT) reached at Site 999 and to estimate total depth to volcanic basement in preparation for future drilling at this Ocean Drilling Program "legacy" site. The results of these depths and TWT estimates are compared to those made using MCS velocity analyses and velocities measured on recovered cores. Correlations between synthetic seismograms and observed MCS data indicate that volcanic basement at Site 999 lies at approximately 1420 mbsf, within the range predicted from MCS data and slightly shallower than estimated by laboratory velocity measurements.
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:12.4437
West:-78.4422East: -78.4422
South:12.4437

Stratigraphy; Applied geophysics; Atlantic Ocean; basement; Caribbean Sea; Cenozoic; Colombian Basin; correlation; Cretaceous; depth; downhole methods; geophysical methods; geophysical surveys; igneous rocks; Kogi Rise; Leg 165; lithofacies; lithostratigraphy; Mesozoic; North Atlantic; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP Site 999; seismic logging; seismic methods; seismic stratigraphy; seismograms; surveys; synthetic seismograms; Upper Cretaceous; volcanic rocks; well-logging;

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