Stable isotope, seismic sequence boundaries and bioevents in ODP Hole 166-1006A ...

• Main Authors: Spezzaferri, Silvia, McKenzie, Judith A, Isern, Alexandra R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2002
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Leg166; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Pacific; Shackleton; Silvia; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.742696; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.742696

During ODP Leg 166, the recovery of cores from a transect of drill sites across the Bahamas margin from marginal to deep basin environments was an essential requirement for the study of the response of the sedimentary systems to sea-level changes. A detailed biostratigraphy based on planktonic foraminifera was performed on ODP Hole 1006A for an accurate stratigraphic control. The investigated late middle Miocene-early Pliocene sequence spans the interval from about 12.5 Ma (Biozone N12) to approximately 4.5 Ma (Biozone N19). Several bioevents calibrated with the time scale of Berggren et al. (1995a,b) were identified. The ODP Site 1006 benthic oxygen isotope stratigraphy can be correlated to the corresponding deep-water benthic oxygen isotope curve from ODP Site 846 in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific (Shackleton et al., 1995. Proc. ODP Sci. Res. 138, 337-356), which was orbitally tuned for the entire Pliocene into the latest Miocene at 6.0 Ma. The approximate stratigraphic match of the isotopic signals from ... : Supplement to: Spezzaferri, Silvia; McKenzie, Judith A; Isern, Alexandra R (2002): Linking the oxygen isotope record of late Neogene eustasy to sequence stratigraphic patterns along the Bahamas margin: results from a paleoceanographic study of ODP Leg 166, Site 1006 sediments. Marine Geology, 185(1-2), 95-120 ...