(Appendix) Total organic carbon, pyrolysis characteristics, and organic matter types at DSDP Holes 77-535 and 77-540

• Main Authors: Summerhayes, Colin P, Masran, Theodora C
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1984
• Subjects: 77-535; 77-540; Carbon; organic; total; Charcoal; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DEPTH; sediment/rock; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Element analyser CHN; LECO; Epoch; Event label; Glomar Challenger; Gulf of Mexico; Gulf of Mexico/BASIN; Hydrogen index; mass HC; per unit mass total organic carbon; Leg77; Light microscope; Lithologic unit/sequence; Lithology/composition/facies; Organic matter; amorphous; aquatic; terrigenous; Oxygen index; mass CO2; Pollen and spores; Rock eval pyrolysis (Espitalié et al. 1977); Sample code/label; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.809302; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809302

Lower to middle Cretaceous sediments in the eastern Gulf of Mexico are richer in organic matter and have a more marine organic facies than their counterparts in the nearby western North Atlantic, suggesting that the Gulf was the more productive of the two areas. As in the western North Atlantic, the...