Middle Eocene to Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils of ODP Leg 113 holes ...

• Main Authors: Wei, Wuchang, Wise, Sherwood W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1990
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Leg113; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.746712; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.746712

Long sequences of Upper Cretaceous through Quaternary sediments rich in calcareous and siliceous microfossils were recovered at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 689 and 690 on Maud Rise off East Antarctica. These sites have become the southernmost anchor in the Atlantic Basin for bio-, magneto-, chemost...