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Brinkhuis, Henk; Sengers, S; Sluijs, Appy; Warnaar, Jeroen; Williams, Graham L (2003): Dinoflagellate abundance and events of ODP Site 189-1172 sediments. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.779941, Supplement to: Brinkhuis, H et al. (2003): Latest Cretaceous-earliest Oligocene and Quaternary dinoflagellate cysts, ODP Site 1172, East Tasman Plateau. In: Exon, NF; Kennett, JP; Malone, MJ (eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 189, 1-48, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.189.106.2003

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Abstract:
Palynomorphs were studied in samples from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 189, Holes 1172A and 1172D (East Tasman Plateau; 2620 m water depth). Besides organic walled dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts), broad categories of other palynomorphs were quantified in terms of relative abundance. In this contribution, we provide an overview of the dinocyst distribution from the Maastrichtian to lowermost Oligocene and Quaternary intervals and illustrate main trends in palynomorph distribution. The uppermost Cretaceous-lowermost Oligocene succession of Site 1172 has a confident biomagnetostratigraphy, enabling us to tie early Paleogene Southern Hemisphere dinocyst events to the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the first time.
Dinocyst species from the Maastrichtian to earliest Oligocene at Site 1172 are largely endemic ("Transantarctic Flora") or bipolar; cosmopolitan taxa are present in the background as well. The Maastrichtian-early late Eocene dinocyst assemblages are indicative of shallow-marine to restricted marine, pro-deltaic conditions, closely tied to a massive siliciclastic sequence. By middle late Eocene times (~35.5 Ma), the siliciclastic sequence gave way to a thin glauconitic unit, considered to reflect the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway. This transition coincides with the most prominent change in dinocyst associations of the Paleogene. The turnover is inferred to reflect a change from marginal marine to more offshore conditions, with increased winnowing and oxidation. Overlying pelagic carbonate ooze of middle early Oligocene and younger age is virtually barren of organic microfossils, although Quaternary assemblages have been recovered. This aspect is taken to reflect average low sedimentation rates and well-oxygenated water masses during most of the Oligocene and Neogene. The few palynologically productive samples from the Oligocene-Quaternary interval have a stronger cosmopolitan to subtropical signature, with warm-water species being common to abundant.
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Median Latitude: -43.959555 * Median Longitude: 149.928391 * South-bound Latitude: -43.959750 * West-bound Longitude: 149.928260 * North-bound Latitude: -43.959230 * East-bound Longitude: 149.928610
Date/Time Start: 2000-04-22T06:45:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-05-03T21:00:00
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189-1172A * Latitude: -43.959750 * Longitude: 149.928260 * Date/Time Start: 2000-04-22T06:45:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-04-26T09:30:00 * Elevation: -2621.9 m * Penetration: 522.6 m * Recovery: 483.72 m * Location: Tasman Sea * Campaign: Leg189 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 56 cores; 522.6 m cored; 0 m drilled; 92.6 % recovery
189-1172D * Latitude: -43.959230 * Longitude: 149.928610 * Date/Time Start: 2000-04-28T11:30:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-05-03T21:00:00 * Elevation: -2621.7 m * Penetration: 766.5 m * Recovery: 237.09 m * Location: Tasman Sea * Campaign: Leg189 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 31 core; 297.9 m cored; 468.6 m drilled; 79.6 % recovery
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