McKenzie, Judith A; Sprovieri, Rodolfo (1990): Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of foraminifera fand carbon content of ODP Leg 107 holes [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.746047, Supplement to: McKenzie, JA; Sprovieri, R (1990): Paleoceanographic conditions following the earliest Pliocene flooding of the Tyrrhenian Sea. In: Kastens, KA; Mascle, J; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 107, 405-414, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.107.162.1990
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Abstract:
High-resolution bio- and chemostratigraphy of an earliest Pliocene section from ODP Site 652 indicates that postflood paleoceanographic conditions in the Tyrrhenian Sea can be sub-divided into two discrete intervals. The first is manifested by an acme of Sphaeroidinellopsis spp., increasing carbonate contents, and a progressive decrease upsection in both the d13C and dl8O values of the planktonic foraminifera. The lower part of the acme interval contains unusual surface-to-bottom water isotope gradients suggesting a stratification of two water masses. Normal gradients in the upper part of the acme interval suggest a well-mixed water body. Between the end of the acme interval and the MP11/MP12 boundary, denoted by the first occurrence (F.O.) of Globorotalia margaritae, a migrational first appearance, there was a catastrophic collapse of the gradient marking an onset of the second post-flood interval. The disintegration of habitable conditions is suggested by a sharp decrease in carbonate content and the disappearance of the benthonic assemblage, which is subsequently replaced predominantly by Uvigerinapygmea, indicative of cold, low-oxygenated bottom waters. The introduction of benthonic species denoting well-oxygenated bottom conditions occurs within the lower MP12 zone. Superimposed on these overall trends are shorter term, warm-cold cycles, which are interpreted as orbitally induced, climatic fluctuations. Correlative studies of the less complete earliest Pliocene sections from ODP Holes 653B and 654A confirm these interpretations.
A scenario derived from an integration of all the stratigraphic data indicates that normal paleoceanographic conditions were operating in the Tyrrhenian Sea only approximately 250,000 yr after the cessation of Messinian evaporative conditions at the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. The post-flood interval is marked by an initial period of gradual infilling, the Sphaeroidinellopsis spp. acme interval, followed by a disintegration of oceanographic conditions and a second recovery period. A sudden influx of cold, deep Atlantic waters into the Tyrrhenian Sea, resulting from a major tectonic break in the Gibraltar sill, may have caused this catastrophic reversal in the orderly recovery of normal paleoceanographic conditions in the post-flood period.
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Median Latitude: 40.435487 * Median Longitude: 11.283100 * South-bound Latitude: 40.264300 * West-bound Longitude: 10.696700 * North-bound Latitude: 40.579300 * East-bound Longitude: 12.143200
Date/Time Start: 1986-01-18T08:20:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-02-08T15:15:00
Event(s):
107-652A * Latitude: 40.355000 * Longitude: 12.143200 * Date/Time Start: 1986-01-18T08:20:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-01-28T21:30:00 * Elevation: -3446.0 m * Penetration: 721.1 m * Recovery: 445.3 m * Location: Tirreno Sea * Campaign: Leg107 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 75 cores; 721.1 m cored; 0 m drilled; 61.8 % recovery
107-653B * Latitude: 40.264300 * Longitude: 11.449200 * Date/Time Start: 1986-01-31T15:38:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-02-03T03:55:00 * Elevation: -2817.0 m * Penetration: 264.3 m * Recovery: 219.08 m * Location: Tirreno Sea * Campaign: Leg107 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 28 cores; 264.3 m cored; 0 m drilled; 82.9 % recovery
107-654A * Latitude: 40.579300 * Longitude: 10.696700 * Date/Time Start: 1986-02-03T10:40:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-02-08T15:15:00 * Elevation: -2208.0 m * Penetration: 473.8 m * Recovery: 239.84 m * Location: Tirreno Sea * Campaign: Leg107 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 52 cores; 473.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 50.6 % recovery
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- McKenzie, JA; Sprovieri, R (1990): (Table 2) Carbonate content pf ODP Leg 107 holes. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.746046
- McKenzie, JA; Sprovieri, R (1990): (Table 1) Stable carbon and oxygen isotope record of foraminifera from ODP Leg 107 holes. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.746045