Paleogene planktonic foraminifera from the southern Kerguelen Plateau, supplement to: Berggren, William A (1992): Paleogene planktonic foraminifer magnetobiostratigraphy of the southern Kerguelen Plateau (sites 747-749). In: Wise, SW; Schlich, R; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 120, 551-568

An essentially complete Paleogene record was recovered on the Central and Southern Kerguelen plateaus (55°-59°S) in a calcareous biofacies. Recovery deteriorated in the middle Eocene and down to the upper Paleocene because of the presence of interbedded cherts and chalks. The stratigraphic distribut...

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Main Author: Berggren, William A
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 1992
Subjects:
Drilling/drill rig
Leg120
Joides Resolution
Ocean Drilling Program ODP
Kerguelen
Maud Rise
Planktonic foraminifera
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.728718
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.728718
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Summary:An essentially complete Paleogene record was recovered on the Central and Southern Kerguelen plateaus (55°-59°S) in a calcareous biofacies. Recovery deteriorated in the middle Eocene and down to the upper Paleocene because of the presence of interbedded cherts and chalks. The stratigraphic distribution of about 70 taxa of planktonic foraminifers recovered at Sites 747-749 is reported in this paper. Faunas exhibited fairly high diversity (approximately 20-25 species) in the early Eocene, followed by a gradual reduction in diversity in the middle Eocene. A brief incursion of tropical keeled morozovellids occurred near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, similar to that recorded on the Maud Rise (ODP Sites 689 and 690).The high-latitude Paleogene zonal scheme developed for ODP Leg 113 sites has been adopted (with minor modifications) for the lower Eocene-Oligocene part of the Kerguelen Plateau record. A representative Oligocene (polarity chronozones 7-13) and late Eocene-late middle Eocene (questionably polarity chronozones 16-18) magnetostratigraphic record has allowed the calibration of several biostratigraphic datum levels to the standard Global Polarity Time Scale (GPTS) and established their essential synchrony between low and high latitudes.

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