(Table 2) Organic residue at DSDP Hole 76-534A ...

• Main Author: Habib, Daniel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1983
• Subjects: Sample code/label; Organic matter; -; Comment; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Leg76; Glomar Challenger; Deep Sea Drilling Project DSDP; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.809985; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.809985

The kind, sedimentation rate, and diagenesis of organic particles delivered to the North Atlantic seafloor during the Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous were responsible for the presence of carbonaceous sediments in Hole 534A. Organic-rich black clays formed from the rapid supply of organic matter; this organic matter was composed of either abundant, well-preserved, and poorly sorted particles of land plants deposited in clays and silty clays within terrigenous turbiditic sequences (tracheal facies) or abundant amorphous debris (xenomorphic facies) generated through the digestive tracts of marine zooplankton and sedimented as fecal pellets. Evidence for the fecal-pellet origin of xenomorphic debris is illustrated. Black clays were also produced in sediments containing less organic matter as a result of the black color of carbonized particles composing all or most of the residues (micrinitic facies). Slowly sedimented hematitic Aptian clays contain very little carbonized, organic debris that survived diagenetic ... : Supplement to: Habib, Daniel (1983): Sedimentation-rate-dependent distribution of organic matter in the North Atlantic Jurassic-Cretaceous. In: Sheridan, RE; Gradstein, FM; et al. (eds.), Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 76, 781-794 ...