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In:
Supplement to: Lyle, Mitchell W; Wilkens, Roy H; Mayer, Larry A (1993): Detailed stratigraphic correlation of the Neogene sedimentary sequences on the Ontong Java Plateau by well logging: ODP Sites 803, 805, 806, 807, and DSDP Site 586. In: Berger, WH; Kroenke, LW; Mayer, LA; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 130, 587-606, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.130.043.1993
Publication Date:
2024-04-11
Description:
We used well logs, in some cases combined with shipboard physical properties measurements to make more complete profiles and to correlate between sites on the Ontong Java Plateau. By comparing sediment bulk density, velocity, and resistivity logs from adjacent holes at the same site, we showed that even subtle features of the well logs are reproducible and are caused by variations in sedimentation. With only minor amounts of biostratigraphic information, we could readily correlate these sedimentary features across the entire top of the Ontong Java Plateau, demonstrating that for most of the Neogene the top of the plateau is a single sedimentary province. We found it more difficult, but still possible, to correlate in detail sites from the top of the plateau to those drilled on the flanks. The pattern of sedimentation rate variation down the flank of the plateau cannot be interpreted as simply controlled by dissolution. Site 805, in particular, oscillates between accumulating sediment at roughly the same rate as cores on top of the Ontong Java Plateau, and accumulating sediment as slowly as Site 803, 200 m deeper in the water column. These oscillations do not match earlier reconstructions of central Pacific carbonate compensation depth variations.
Keywords:
130-803D; 130-805C; 130-806B; 130-807A; 130-807C; 89-586C; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Joides Resolution; Leg130; Leg89; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Pacific; West equatorial Pacific Ocean
Type:
Dataset
Format:
application/zip, 2 datasets
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