Strasser, Michael; Weissert, Helmut; Bernasconi, Stefano M. (2006): Carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry along a subducting pelagic section offshore Costa Rica (ODP Legs 170 and 205). Texas A&M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, In: Morris, Julie D., Villinger, Heinrich W., Klaus, Adam, Cardace, Dawn M., Chavagnac, Valerie M. C., Clift, Peter D., Haeckel, Matthias, Hisamitsu, Toshio, Kastner, Miriam, Pfender, Marion, Saffer, Demian M., Santelli, Cara, Schramm, Burkhard, Screaton, Elizabeth J., Solomon, Evan A., Strasser, Michael, Moe, Kyaw Thu, Vannucchi, Paola, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; scientific results; fluid flow and subduction fluxes across the Costa Rica convergent margin; implications for the seismogenic zone and subduction factory; covering Leg 205 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution; Victoria, Canada, to Balboa, Panama; Sites 1253-1255; 2 September-6 November 2002, 205, georefid:2007-025133

Abstract:
In this data report we present results from stable isotope measurements (delta (super 13) C and delta (super 18) O) on bulk sediment at several sites located on a transect along a subduction margin offshore Costa Rica (Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1039, 1040, and 1253). Comparison of stable isotope compositions (delta (super 13) C and delta (super 18) O) of the pelagic carbonates Subunit U3C between the reference sites (Site 1039 and 1253) and the underthrust section (Site 1040) reveals similar delta (super 13) C values and minor differences in delta (super 18) O values within four specific intervals. Isotope stratigraphy was then used to further constrain the shipboard age models based on bio- and magnetostratigraphy. The resulting age models are in agreement with those derived from biostratigraphy and confirm that the sedimentation rate of the lower Subunit 3C is roughly constant on the order of 50 m/ m.y. This is in contrast with the postulated very high sedimentation rates at approximately 12.7 Ma and lower sedimentation rates ( approximately 18 m/m.y.) in the lower part of the section between 16 and 13 Ma, as suggested by shipboard magnetostratigraphic datums.
Coverage:
West: -86.1200 East: -86.0500 North: 9.4500 South: 9.3800
Relations:
Expedition: 170
Expedition: 205
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.205.205.2006 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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