Citation:

odp.proc.sr.207.111.2007

Name: Silicoflagellate abundances in sediments of ODP Leg 207 sites
Published: 2007
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Abstract:

The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drilled at five sites in the western Atlantic Ocean during Leg 207. The objective of the drilling was to recover samples from the shallow buried Cretaceous and Paleocene sediments on the Demerara Rise off Suriname, South America. These sediments are being studied for a number of paleoceanographic studies of the low-latitude Atlantic off the coast of Suriname (this volume). For this report two sites, Sites 1257 and 1258, were selected for silicoflagellate study because shipboard results suggested these two sites as the only ones with siliceous microfossils of Paleocene-Eocene age.

The Demarara Rise is a predominant submarine plateau located off the coast of Suriname and French Guyana. This plateau stretches 380 km along the coast and is 220 km wide. The depth to seafloor along the depth transect drilled during ODP Leg 207 ranges from 1000 to 4500 m, but most of the remainder of the plateau lies in shallow water of 700 m. Much of this area is covered with 2-3 km of sediments. The Demerara Rise is built on rifted Precambrian continental crust. The plateau was one of the last places to be in contact with West Africa during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean (see Shipboard Scientific Party, 2004).

Site 1257 (9°27'N, 54°20'W; water depth = 2951 m) is located on a terrace on the northwestern Demerara Rise ~400 km from Suriname. This is the second deepest water depth location drilled during Leg 207. Sediments from this area range in age from Miocene to Albian. This area is part of the transform fault that separated from Central America and western Africa. Three holes were drilled at Site 1257.

Site 1258 (9°26'N, 54°43'W; water depth = 3192 m) is located on the western slope of the Demerara Rise ~380 km north of Suriname. This site is the distal and deepest site of the paleoceanographic depth transect drilled across Demerara Rise during Leg 207. The area is located on a ridge of Paleocene sediments cropping out on the seafloor. Three holes were drilled at Site 1258, but only one is studied.

Project(s):

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 9.443480 * Median Longitude: -54.537541 * South-bound Latitude: 9.433330 * West-bound Longitude: -54.733310 * North-bound Latitude: 9.453830 * East-bound Longitude: -54.341580

Date/Time Start: 2003-01-15T14:30:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-01-25T10:10:00

Event(s):

207-1257A * Latitude: 9.453830 * Longitude: -54.341960 * Date/Time Start: 2003-01-15T14:30:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-01-19T22:45:00 * Elevation: -2951.0 m * Penetration: 284.7 m * Recovery: 216.05 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 31 core; 284.7 m cored; 0 m drilled; 75.9 % recovery

207-1257B * Latitude: 9.453630 * Longitude: -54.341800 * Date/Time Start: 2003-01-19T22:45:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-01-21T13:20:00 * Elevation: -2951.0 m * Penetration: 227.3 m * Recovery: 116.23 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 27 cores; 187.3 m cored; 40 m drilled; 62.1 % recovery

207-1257C * Latitude: 9.453430 * Longitude: -54.341580 * Date/Time Start: 2003-01-21T13:20:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-01-22T15:30:00 * Elevation: -2951.0 m * Penetration: 235.9 m * Recovery: 96.6 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 16 cores; 153.9 m cored; 82 m drilled; 62.8 % recovery

Comment:

All the slides for each size fraction were completely examined, with all specimens representing more than one-half of a silicoflagellate included in the counts.

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

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Datasets listed in this publication series

Power, CP; McCartney, K (2007): (Table T2) Silicoflagellate abundance in ODP Hole 207-1258A sediments. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.775910
Power, CP; McCartney, K (2007): (Table T1) Silicoflagellate abundance in ODP Site 207-1257 sediments. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.775909