Foraminiferal zonation of a boring in Quaternary deposits of the northern North
The foraminiferal content of samples from a 122 m deep borehole in the Statfjord Field of the northern C5 North Sea permitted a biostratigraphical subdivision of the sequence into 11 units. The paleoecology of these units is discussed. Most of them reflect High-Arctic ice age conditions, whereas two...
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1982
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.7222 http://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull31-01-02-29-47.pdf |
| Summary: | The foraminiferal content of samples from a 122 m deep borehole in the Statfjord Field of the northern C5 North Sea permitted a biostratigraphical subdivision of the sequence into 11 units. The paleoecology of these units is discussed. Most of them reflect High-Arctic ice age conditions, whereas two of them are of interstadial character. Distinctly ameliorated assemblages occur 20 m below sea floor. They correlate with late Statfjord Interglacial assemblages from a previously described boring and probably originate from the end of the Eemian. An attempt has been made to correlate the units of the present boring with published deep sea oxygen isotope stages. |
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