Heck, P. R.; Anselmetti, Flavio S.; Isern, Alexandra R. (2006): Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentation on the Marion Plateau; data from precruise ODP Leg 194 site survey gravity cores. Texas A&M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, In: Anselmetti, Flavio S., Isern, Alexandra R., Blum, Peter, Andresen, Nils, Birke, Tesfaye Kidane, Bracco Gartner, Guido L., Burns, Stephen J., Conesa, Gilles A. R., Delius, Heike, Dugan, Brandon, Eberli, Gregor P., Ehrenberg, Stephen N., Fuller, Michael D., Muller, Pamela Hallock, Hine, Albert C., Howell, Michael W., John, Cedric M., Karner, Garry D., Kindler, Pascal F., Olson, Brooke E., Sasaki, Keiichi, Stewart, Duncan, Wei, Wuchang, White, Timothy S., Wood, Jason L., Yamada, Tsutomu, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; constraining Miocene sea level change from carbonate platform evolution, Marion Plateau, northeast Australia; covering Leg 194 of the cruises of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution; Townsville, Australia, to Apra Harbor, Guam; Sites 1192-1199; 3 January-2 March 2001, 194, georefid:2006-075595

Abstract:
Biostratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geochemical analyses of hemipelagic periplatform sediments from shallow gravity cores taken during the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 194 site survey reveal that, despite the strong currents and almost infilled intraplatform bathymetric depressions, recent sedimentation at the location of the Leg 194 drill sites recorded glacial-interglacial cycles. Sediment analyses included determination of sediment type, carbonate content, bulk stable oxygen isotope composition, and calcareous nannofossil zones. Glacial periods, identified by elevated bulk delta 18O, are characterized by darker sediment color, coarser grain size, and lower carbonate content, whereas interglacial periods yield lighter-colored, finer, and carbonate-rich sediments. These data from the shallowmost few meters of Marion Plateau sediments complement the subsurface information of Leg 194 holes, in which the top few meters have not been analyzed in such a high-resolution fashion. In addition, these gravity cores are more likely to have recovered the sediments closest to the sediment/water interface as compared to the hydraulic piston cores collected during Leg 194.
Coverage:
West: 151.4500 East: 153.0500 North: -20.1000 South: -21.0500
Relations:
Expedition: 194
Supplemental Information:
Data report; available only on CD-ROM in PDF format and on the Web in PDF or HTML
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Provider: SEDIS Publication Catalogue
Data set link: http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=10.2973/odp.proc.sr.194.006.2004 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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