Quinn, Terrence Michael; Taylor, Frederick W; Halliday, Alex N (1994): Geochemistry of neritic carbonates of ODP Hole 134-831B [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787346, Supplement to: Quinn, TM et al. (1994): Strontium-isotopic dating of neritic carbonates at Bougainville Guyot (Site 831), New Hebrides Island Arc. In: Green, HG; Collot, J-Y; Stokking, LB; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 134, 89-95, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.134.006.1994
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Abstract:
Drilling at Bougainville Guyot (Ocean Drilling Program Site 831), New Hebrides Island Arc during Leg 134 revealed that 727.5 m of carbonate overlies an andesite basement. The carbonate cap at Site 831 consists of 20 m of pelagic carbonate overlying 707.5 m of neritic carbonates. The neritic section consists of ~230 m of largely unaltered aragonite sediment that overlies ~497 m of totally calcitized limestone. The deeper portion of the calcitized interval has been pervasively altered by diagenesis. Prior to this study the age distribution of sediments at Bougainville Guyot was poorly known because age diagnostic fossils are sparsely and discontinuously distributed in the sequence.
We have used Sr isotopes to provide temporal constraints on the deposition of carbonates at Site 831; these constraints are critical in reconstructing the vertical movement of Bougainville Guyot before its collision with the New Hebrides Island Arc. Overall, the chronostratigraphy of Bougainville Guyot can be subdivided into three intervals: (1) a Pleistocene interval (102.4 to 391.11 meters below sea floor [mbsf]); (2) a Miocene interval (410.31 to 669.53 mbsf); and (3) an Oligocene interval (678.83 to 727.50 mbsf). Strontium isotopic ages of samples increase with increasing depth in the carbonate sequence, except near the bottom of the sequence, where several samples exhibit a consistent reversed age vs. depth trend. Such age reversals are most likely the product of post-depositional rock-water interaction. Preliminary stable isotope data are consistent with diagenetic alteration in the marine and meteoric environments. Several abrupt decreases in d87Sr, and hence age, of sediments are recognized in the carbonate cap at Bougainville Guyot. These disconformities are most likely the product of subaerial exposure in response to relative sea-level fall. Indeed, Sr-isotope ages indicate that 2 to 9 m.y. of sediment deposition is missing across these d87Sr disconformities.
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Latitude: -16.009000 * Longitude: 166.673000
Date/Time Start: 1990-11-13T04:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1990-11-20T16:30:00
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134-831B * Latitude: -16.009000 * Longitude: 166.673000 * Date/Time Start: 1990-11-13T04:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1990-11-20T16:30:00 * Elevation: -1078.0 m * Penetration: 852 m * Recovery: 87.44 m * Location: Coral Sea * Campaign: Leg134 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 83 cores; 749.6 m cored; 0 m drilled; 11.7 % recovery
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- Quinn, TM; Taylor, FW; Halliday, AN (1994): (Table 2) Stable isotope ratios of sparry calcite cement samples from ODP Hole 134-831B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787345
- Quinn, TM; Taylor, FW; Halliday, AN (1994): (Table 1) Chemistry of neritic carbonates of ODP Hole 134-831B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787344