Diagenesis of siliceous particles in ODP Hole 114-699A

• Main Authors: Monty, Claude L V, Westall, Francis, van der Gaast, Sjierk
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: 114-699A; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg114; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.755279; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.755279

A number of neogenic opaline structures, not previously reported in the literature, as well as other neogenic phases are described from four Oligocene to Pliocene biosiliceous sediment samples from Hole 699A. The possible influence of microbes on the formation or the morphology of some of them is di...