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Marsaglia, Kathleen M; Tribble, Jane S (1999): Petrographic description and mineral composition of ODP Site 161-975 sediments [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805296, Supplement to: Marsaglia, KM; Tribble, JS (1999): Petrography and mineralogy of the uppermost Messinian section and the Pliocene/Miocene boundary at Site 975, Western Mediterranean Sea. In: Zahn, R; Comas, MC; Klaus, A (eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 161, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.161.201.1999

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Abstract:
Ocean Drilling Program Site 975 is located near the base of the Menorca Rise in the South Balearic Basin of the western Mediterranean Sea. Coring at this site penetrated the Pliocene/Miocene boundary and recovered a sequence of sediments that represent the final stages of salt deposition and the transition from evaporitic to open marine conditions at the end of the Miocene (Messinian). Detailed petrographic observations and bulk mineralogical analyses by X-ray diffraction form the basis for preliminary interpretations of depositional environments for this section. Gypsum is thought to have been deposited in an evaporating basin below wave base. Cycles consisting of a clay layer overlain by gypsiferous chalk, laminated gypsum, and finally pinch-and-swell gypsum suggest upsection increases in salinity. The gypsum section is overlain by two exotic sand layers thought to mark events of fresher water (marine or meteoric) inflow to the basin. Gypsum deposition terminated and was replaced by inorganic precipitation of micritic calcite with periodic, variable dilution by fine-grained terrigenous sediment. The micritic sediments have fine, slightly wavy, laminations indicating either an algal/microbial mat origin, or varve-like fluctuations in deposition, perhaps in a deep basin. The Pliocene/Miocene boundary falls within an interval of banded micritic silty clays that reflect the final environmental fluctuations during the transition to the open marine conditions of the Pliocene.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 38.896430 * Median Longitude: 4.509930 * South-bound Latitude: 38.896400 * West-bound Longitude: 4.509930 * North-bound Latitude: 38.896700 * East-bound Longitude: 4.509930
Date/Time Start: 1995-05-14T07:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-05-18T10:15:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Marsaglia, KM; Tribble, JS (1999): (Table 3) Mineral composition of ODP Site 161-975 sediments, Unit III. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805295
  2. Marsaglia, KM; Tribble, JS (1999): (Table 2) Mineral composition of ODP Hole 161-975B sediments, Units I and II. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805294
  3. Marsaglia, KM; Tribble, JS (1999): (Table 1) Petrographic description of ODP Hole 161-975B sediments. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805293