• Fore reef or open shoal water

• Cuttings from this interval are all sand- and granule-size angular chips of hard white limestone, although the upper few feet contain some unaltered fossils that are probably contamination from above the solution unconformity at 2,780 feet. Stained cuttings from 2,840 to 2,850 feet, 2,940 to 2,950 feet, 2,990 to 3,000 feet, and 3,020 to 3,030 feet show these chips to be entirely calcite. There are clusters of clear yellow calcite crystals. The limestone is predominantly well cemented and recrystallized and is made up of abundant tests of benthonic smaller Foraminifera, including miliolids that are closely packed to floating in a fine-grained crystalline calcite matrix. Some chips are made of recrystallized coral.