Neogene planktonic foraminifera of DSDP Leg 41 holes

• Main Authors: Krasheninnikov, Valery A, Pflaumann, Uwe
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1978
• Subjects: 41-366A; 41-369A; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg41; North Atlantic/CONT RISE; North Atlantic/CONT SLOPE; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.758432; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758432

During Leg 41 Neogene sediments were recovered from five sites off northwest Africa. On the Sierra Leone Rise (Site 366), Neogene sediments consist of nanno oozes, nanno chalk, and calcareous clays 230 meters thick, resting conformably on the late Oligocene sediments. The common succession of zones...