Upper Cretaceous nannofossils from ODP Leg 120

• Main Author: Watkins, David K
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1992
• Subjects: 120-747; 120-748C; 120-750A; 120-750B; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg120; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Indian Ridge; South Indian Ocean; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.758732; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758732

Drilling on the Kerguelen Plateau during Leg 120 cored the most complete, best preserved record of the Late Cretaceous of the Southern Ocean to date. Two calcareous pelagic sedimentary sections (Sites 747 and 750) provide a record from the upper Turonian(?)-lower Coniacian through the Maestrichtian....