The FMS resistivity images show a curious decimeter-scale banding in this lower section. 1062G and H are near the crest. Hole 1062B was cored by XCB from 2.6 to 4.0 Ma, and Hole 1062E was cored by XCB from 2.7 to 3.0 Ma. The holes located on the far west and far east sides of the mud wave are 1050 m apart. An entire sedimentary cycle typically occupies 10 to 20 m, and more than five of these cycles are contained in Unit I. Four distinctly reddish layers are also present that can be correlated to the red lutite layers observed at other shallower Leg 172 sites.
Contacts are gradual and moderately to heavily bioturbated.
The average thicknesses of clay layers and nannofossil-rich layers are 2 m and 1 m, respectively. The source area of the turbidites was most probably the Bahama Banks. Thin carbonate-rich layers are present. There is an increase of silt-sized lithologies with respect to the overlying units. Calcareous nannofossils are the dominant microfossils at Site 1062.