Heindel, Katrin; Wisshak, Max; Westphal, Hildegard (2012): Age analysis and stratigraphical position from different Holes of IODP Expedition 310 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.788223
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The main motivation for Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 310 to the Tahitian Archipelago was the assumption that the last deglacial sea-level rise is precisely recorded in the coral reefs of this far-field site. The Tahitian deglacial succession typically consists of coral framework subsequently encrusted by coralline algae and microbialites. The high abundance of microbialites is uncommon for shallow-water coral reefs, and the environmental conditions favouring their development are still poorly understood.
Microbioerosion patterns in the three principal framework components (corals, coralline algae, microbialites) are studied with respect to relative light availability during coral growth and subsequent encrustation, in order to constrain the palaeobathymetry and the relative timing of the encrustation. Unexpectedly for a tropical, light-flooded setting, ichnotaxa typical for the deep-euphotic to dysphotic zone dominate. The key ichnotaxa for the shallow euphotic zone are scarce in the analysed sample set, and are restricted tothe baseof thedeglacial succession, thus reflecting thedeglacial sea-level rise.
At the base of the deglacial reef succession, the ichnocoenoses present in the corals indicate shallower bathymetries than those in the encrusting microbialites. This is in agreement with radiocarbon data that indicate a time gap of more than 600 years between coral death and microbialite formation. At the top of the deglacial reef succession, in contrast, the microbioerosion patterns in the three framework components indicate a uniform palaeobathymetry, and radiocarbon ages imply that encrustation took place shortly after coral demise.
An enigma arises from the fact that the ichnocoenoses imply photic conditions that appear very deep for zooxanthellate coral growth. During the deglacial sea-level rise increased nutrients and fluvial influx may have led to (seasonal?) eutrophication, condensing the photic zonation. This would have exerted stress on the coral ecosystem and played a significant role in initiating microbialite development.
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Heindel, Katrin; Wisshak, Max; Westphal, Hildegard (2009): Microbioerosion in Tahitian reefs: A record of environmental change during the last deglacial sea-level rise (IODP 310). Lethaia, 42(3), 322-340, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00140.x
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- Heindel, K; Wisshak, M; Westphal, H (2012): (Table 3) Different age analysis from different Holes of IODP Expedition 310. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.788222
- Heindel, K; Wisshak, M; Westphal, H (2012): (Table 2) Water depths and the stratigraphical position from different Holes of IODP Expedition 310. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.788219