Transformation of aragonite to calcite and of high-magnesian to low-magnesian calcite is accompanied by a substantial increase in volume which produces cone-in-cone texture by tangential compression. Internal stresses stored within in the sediment could not be released until the core was extracted; then material and mounting medium expanded spontaneously.

Supplement to: Maillot, Henri; Bonte, Antoine (1983): Cone-in-cone texture from Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 71, Site 511, Falkland Plateau, South Atlantic Ocean. In: Ludwig, WJ; Krasheninnikov, VA; et al. (eds.), Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 71, 345-349