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The quantity and quality of organic carbon of Eocene to Holocene sediments from ODP Sites 645, 646, and 647 were investigated to reconstruct depositional environments. Results were based on organic-carbon and nitrogen deter minations, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, and kerogen microscopy. The sediments at Sit...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.547.5868 2023-05-15T15:35:02+02:00 and Dietrich H Welte The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.547.5868 http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/105_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr105_13.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.547.5868 http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/105_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr105_13.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/105_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr105_13.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T11:21:48Z The quantity and quality of organic carbon of Eocene to Holocene sediments from ODP Sites 645, 646, and 647 were investigated to reconstruct depositional environments. Results were based on organic-carbon and nitrogen deter minations, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, and kerogen microscopy. The sediments at Site 645 in Baffin Bay are characterized by relatively high organic-carbon values, most of which range from 0.5 % to almost 3%, with maximum values in the middle Miocene. Distinct maxima of organic-carbon ac cumulation rates occur between 18 and 12.5 Ma and between 3.4 and 0 Ma. At Sites 646 and 647 in the Labrador Sea, organic-carbon contents vary between 0.1 % and 0.75%. Cyclic "Milankovitch-type " changes in organic-carbon depo sition imply climate-controlled mechanisms that cause these fluctuations. The composition of organic matter at Site 645 is dominated by terrigenous components throughout the entire sedi ment sequence. An increased content of marine organic carbon was recorded only in the late-middle Miocene. At Sites 646 and 647, the origin of the organic matter most probably is marine. Oceanic paleoproductivity values were estimated, based on the amount of marine organic carbon. During most of the Neogene time interval at Site 645, productivity was low, i.e., similar or less than that measured in Baffin Bay today. Higher values of up to 150 (200) gC • m-2 • y-1 may have occurred only in the Miocene. At Sites 646 and 647, mean paleoproductivity values vary between 90 and 170 gC ■ m-2 • y- 1; i.e., these are also similar to those measured in the Labrador Sea today. Lower values of 40 to 70 gC • m-2 • y- 1 were estimated for the early Eocene and (middle) Mio cene. Text Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Labrador Sea Unknown Baffin Bay |
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The quantity and quality of organic carbon of Eocene to Holocene sediments from ODP Sites 645, 646, and 647 were investigated to reconstruct depositional environments. Results were based on organic-carbon and nitrogen deter minations, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, and kerogen microscopy. The sediments at Site 645 in Baffin Bay are characterized by relatively high organic-carbon values, most of which range from 0.5 % to almost 3%, with maximum values in the middle Miocene. Distinct maxima of organic-carbon ac cumulation rates occur between 18 and 12.5 Ma and between 3.4 and 0 Ma. At Sites 646 and 647 in the Labrador Sea, organic-carbon contents vary between 0.1 % and 0.75%. Cyclic "Milankovitch-type " changes in organic-carbon depo sition imply climate-controlled mechanisms that cause these fluctuations. The composition of organic matter at Site 645 is dominated by terrigenous components throughout the entire sedi ment sequence. An increased content of marine organic carbon was recorded only in the late-middle Miocene. At Sites 646 and 647, the origin of the organic matter most probably is marine. Oceanic paleoproductivity values were estimated, based on the amount of marine organic carbon. During most of the Neogene time interval at Site 645, productivity was low, i.e., similar or less than that measured in Baffin Bay today. Higher values of up to 150 (200) gC • m-2 • y-1 may have occurred only in the Miocene. At Sites 646 and 647, mean paleoproductivity values vary between 90 and 170 gC ■ m-2 • y- 1; i.e., these are also similar to those measured in the Labrador Sea today. Lower values of 40 to 70 gC • m-2 • y- 1 were estimated for the early Eocene and (middle) Mio cene. |
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