Accumulation and composition of terrigenous material on Ceara rise over the past 55 Ma

• Main Authors: Dobson, David M, Dickens, Gerald Roy, Rea, David K
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2001
• Subjects: 154-925A; 154-925B; 154-929E; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg154; North Atlantic Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.704610; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.704610

Ceara Rise, located east the Amazon River mouth, is covered with a thick blanket of pelagic carbonate and hemipelagic terrigenous sediment. The terrigenous component has been extracted from 57 bulk sediment samples at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 925 and 929 on Ceara Rise to obtain a Cenozoic...