Processing results from drill hole VNIIO-1989-24 in the Murmanskaya Area, southern part of the South Barents Deep (Report 6383, Leningrad)

• Main Authors: Ronkina, Zinaida Z, Komarnitsky, Valery M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1989
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Barents Sea; D/S Valentin Shashin; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; VNIIO-1989; VNIIO-1989-24; Murmanskaya
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.690635; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.690635

Area of drilling: Murmanskaya area, southern part of the South Barents Deep, Barents Sea. Reasons for drilling: 1. Study of the geological section from the longest drill hole in the South Barents Sea recovered Late Permian, Triassic and Jurassic deposits. 2. Obtaining data for stratification of the section and its allocation with reflecting seismic horizons; 3. Study of properties, composition and lithologic-facial features of sedimentary rocks. Technical results: The hole has penetrated the section of 4373 m and stopped in the Late Permian deposits. This section is the thickest in the Muramnsk area. Scientific results: 1. Comprehensive study of the Late Permian, Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits from the hole has allowed to reveal lithologic features and to carry out a detailed lithologic and stratigraphic sequence of sedimentary rocks. Permian deposits have been reliably identified on the base of obtained lithologic and paleontologic materials (foraminifera, palynology) from Permian-Triassic to Early Cretaceous ones. 2. Thicknesses of the units are as followed: Permian-Triassic - 1322 m, Early Triassic - 241 m, Middle Triassic - 403 m, Late Triassic - 416 m, Early Jurassic - 287 m, Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bathonian) - 348 m, Late Jurassic - 117 m (Callovian-Kimmeridgian - 91 m, Tithonian - 26 m), Early Cretaceous - 1239 m (Berriasian-Hauterivian - 39 m, Barremian-Aptian - 501 m, Albian - 699 m). The question about presence or absence of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits (mapped in the South Barents Deep) in the section remains undetermined. Presumably these deposits have low thickness and occur above the sampling interval. 3. Sedimentation rate varied from 0.3 cm/kyr in the Late Jurassic to 10 cm/kyr in the Early Triassic. 4. Pre-Valanginian washout and weathering crust as well as pre-Cenozoic washout have been identified. Hiatuses are assumed in the post-Jurassic, post-Valanginian, and pre-Cenozoic time. 5. Clayey-silty sedimentary rocks dominate in the hole. Silty-sandy rocks dominate in the Permian, ...