THE BLAKE NOSE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE (FLOR IDA ATLANTIC MARGIN, ODP LEG 171B) - AN EXEMPLAR RECORD OF THE MAASTRICHTIAN-DANIAN TRANSITION

Citation
Jp. Bellier et al., THE BLAKE NOSE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE (FLOR IDA ATLANTIC MARGIN, ODP LEG 171B) - AN EXEMPLAR RECORD OF THE MAASTRICHTIAN-DANIAN TRANSITION, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 325(7), 1997, pp. 499-504
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
325
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
499 - 504
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1997)325:7<499:TBNC(I>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
During ODP Leg 171B, devoted to the analysis of the Blake Plateau marg in in front of Florida, 16 holes have been drilled In 5 distinct sites . The sites have documented a sedimentary succession ranging in age fr om Aptian to Eocene. Emphasis has been put on critical periods, compri sing the Paleocene-Eocene transition, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary which has been cored in excellent conditions, the middle Maastrichtia n extinctions and the Albian the anoxic episodes.