Neogene Radiolarians in Neogene sediments of the Norwegian Sea ...

• Main Authors: Goll, Robert M, Bjorklund, Kjell R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1989
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Leg104; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.728555; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.728555

Radiolaria are present in frequencies ranging from rare to abundant and with generally moderate to good preservation quality in Leg 104 sediments younger than 22 Ma. Preservation degrades in progressively younger sediments, and upper Pliocene to mid-Pleistocene radiolaria were found only at Site 644, where sporadic assemblages of moderate to poorly preserved specimens persist to approximately 0.75 Ma. Radiolaria are essentially absent in Leg 104 recovery older than basal Miocene.The stratigraphic ranges of 55 taxa of radiolaria are documented in 451 samples from the biosiliceous recoveries of Holes 642B, 642C, 642D, 643A, and 644A. The stratigraphic ranges of 25 of these species are used as boundary criteria for a new system of 28 Neogene zones and subzones that are used to characterize approximately 72% of the past 22 m.y. of sedimentation on the Vriring Plateau. This new scheme is intended to supercede the NRS zones provisionally proposed in the Leg 104 Initial Reports. The applicability of this regional ... : Supplement to: Goll, Robert M; Bjorklund, Kjell R (1989): A new radiolarian biostratigraphy for the Neogene of the Norwegian Sea: ODP Leg 104. In: Eldholm, O; Thiede, J; Taylor, E; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 104, 697-737 ...