Composition of Lower Cretaceous sandstones of the Galicia margin

The composition of 31 samples of Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian to Aptian) sandstone from ODP Sites 638 through 641 was analyzed using the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method. The results show that the source of the Valanginian to Hauterivian sand was a continental block, dominated by granitic and/...

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Main Author: Johnson, Jeffrey A
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1988
Subjects:
103-638B
103-638C
103-639D
103-640A
103-641C
DRILL
Drilling/drill rig
Joides Resolution
Leg103
North Atlantic Ocean
Ocean Drilling Program
ODP
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.743858
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.743858
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Summary:The composition of 31 samples of Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian to Aptian) sandstone from ODP Sites 638 through 641 was analyzed using the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method. The results show that the source of the Valanginian to Hauterivian sand was a continental block, dominated by granitic and/or high-grade-metamorphic rocks. Although these petrologic results do not allow discrimination between various potential continental block provinces, they suggest, in conjunction with seismic profiles and regional considerations, that the source was the Galicia margin or western Iberia. In contrast, the Barremian and Aptian sand is dominated by carbonate grains that were derived from a carbonate platform, probably on Galicia Bank.

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