The occurrence and significance of Pleistocene and Upper Pliocene sapropels

• Main Authors: Emeis, Kay-Christian, Camerlenghi, Angelo, McKenzie, Judith A, Rio, Domenico, Sprovieri, Rodolfo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: 107-650A; 107-651A; 107-652A; 107-653B; 107-654A; 107-655A; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg107; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Tirreno Sea; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.759855; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.759855

Numerous sapropels and sapropelic strata from Upper Pliocene and Pleistocene hemipelagic sediments of the Tyrrhenian Sea show that intermittent anoxia, possibly related to strongly increased biological productivity, was not restricted to the eastern Mediterranean basins and may be a basin-wide resul...