# Deep Sea project (4): 132 active drill-site columns Cambrian 0 0.0% Ordovician 0 0.0% Silurian 0 0.0% Devonian 1 0.8% Carboniferous 0 0.0% Permian 0 0.0% Triassic 0 0.0% Jurassic 2 1.5% Cretaceous 46 34.8% Paleogene 84 63.6% Neogene 105 79.5% Quaternary 123 93.2% sites holding Jurassic through Quaternary: 2; Cretaceous through Quaternary: 29 oldest system held: Cretaceous 43, Paleogene 42, Jurassic 2, Neogene 28, Quaternary 16, Devonian 1 ## Land columns, layered units: 1361 columns with Phanerozoic units share of each column's own span (oldest base to youngest top) covered by units: quartiles 30.6%, 56.9%, 82.7% share of the whole Phanerozoic (538.8 Myr) covered: quartiles 7.4%, 15.2%, 29.4%; max 92.3% resolved gaps per column: median 3, upper quartile 6, max 19 ## Deep Sea drill sites, sedimentary units: 132 columns with Phanerozoic units share of each column's own span (oldest base to youngest top) covered by units: quartiles 55.0%, 79.0%, 100.0% share of the whole Phanerozoic (538.8 Myr) covered: quartiles 1.8%, 4.3%, 9.7%; max 24.8% resolved gaps per column: median 2, upper quartile 5, max 26 Limits: unit ages are the compilers' correlation ages on the mainstream timescale; a gap shorter than a compiled unit is invisible, so these coverages are upper bounds at Macrostrat's resolution (the Sadler effect).