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Barnes, David A; Thy, Peter; Renne, Paul (1992): Geochemistry of Miocene "blue tuff" samples [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.777135, Supplement to: Barnes, DA et al. (1992): Sedimentology, phenocryst chemistry, and age - Miocene “Blue Tuff”: Sites 794 and 796, Japan Sea. In: Pisciotto, KA; Ingle, JCJr.; von Breymann, MT; Barron, J; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 127/128(1), 115-130, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.127128-1.185.1992

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Abstract:
Distinctive, massive to stratified, pale blue volcaniclastics, initially referred to as the "blue tuff," were encountered at all four sites drilled during ODP Leg 127 in the Japan Sea. Detailed vertical sequence analysis, plagioclase chemistry, plagioclase 87Sr/86Sr isotopic composition, and 40Ar/39Ar age dating indicate that thick sequences of the blue tuff are not genetically related.
Blue tuffs at Hole 794B were apparently deposited by density flows at ambient temperature. Deposition was penecontemporaneous with a large submarine phreatomagmatic eruption at 14.9 Ma in bathyal or deeper water depths. The blue tuffs at this location comprise mostly reworked hydroclastic glass shards and lesser amounts of plagioclase crystals. Pyrogenic plagioclase has an average An mole% of 18±3. Comparison of blue tuff plagioclase compositions with the composition of plagioclase from acoustic basement at Site 794 suggests that these rocks are not genetically related. As such, the extrapolation of sediment accumulation rate data in conjunction with this more precise age for the blue tuff corroborates previous minimum age estimates of 16.2 Ma for acoustic basement at Site 794.
Blue tuffs at Hole 796B were probably deposited at ambient temperatures by downslope slumping and density flow of reworked pyrogenic debris. This debris includes abundant bubble wall glass shards and plagioclase crystals, with variable admixture of volcanic lithic and intrabasinal fragments. Pyrogenic fragments were produced by subaerial or shallow submarine, magmatic eruptions dated at 7.6 Ma. Blue tuffs contain a heterogeneous mixture of unrelated fragments including a mixed population of plagioclase crystals. The average An mole% of the predominant, probable comagmatic, plagioclase population is 30±4.
The two sequences of blue tuff studied are distinct in age, mineral composition, and the eruptive origin of pyroclastic fragments. Preliminary 87Sr/86Sr isotopic compositions of plagioclase, however, indicates that blue tuffs at both locations are the product of typical, subduction-related island arc magmatism. Based on the results of this study, there is no justification for stratigraphic correlation of widespread, Miocene, blue to blue-gray bentonitic tuff and tuffaceous sandstones nor the interpretation that these strata are indicative of regional, explosive submarine volcanism genetically related to rifting and formation of the Japan Sea. Rather, these reworked pyroclastic strata of intermediate composition were deposited over a protracted 6-8 m.y. period in association with widespread, subduction-related submarine to subaerial volcanism in the Japan Sea backarc basin.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 41.076333 * Median Longitude: 138.625333 * South-bound Latitude: 40.190000 * West-bound Longitude: 138.231000 * North-bound Latitude: 42.849000 * East-bound Longitude: 139.414000
Date/Time Start: 1989-06-30T12:15:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-07-29T19:00:00
Event(s):
127-794B * Latitude: 40.190000 * Longitude: 138.231000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-06-30T12:15:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-07-03T20:30:00 * Elevation: -2822.0 m * Penetration: 549 m * Recovery: 87.4 m * Location: Japan Sea * Campaign: Leg127 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 27 cores; 249.2 m cored; 0 m drilled; 35.1 % recovery
127-796B * Latitude: 42.849000 * Longitude: 139.414000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-07-24T21:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-07-29T19:00:00 * Elevation: -2634.0 m * Penetration: 464.9 m * Recovery: 85.31 m * Location: Japan Sea * Campaign: Leg127 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 32 cores; 293.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 29 % recovery
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  1. Barnes, DA; Thy, P; Renne, P (1992): (Table 2) Age determination of plagioclase, biotite and hornblende from blue tuffs an related strata of ODP Leg 127 samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.777132
  2. Barnes, DA; Thy, P; Renne, P (1992): (Table 1) Geochemistry of plagioclase from blue tuffs an related strata of ODP Leg 127 samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.777129
  3. Barnes, DA; Thy, P; Renne, P (1992): (Table 3) Strontium isotope composition of ODP Leg 127 samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.777133