Ravizza, Gregory E; Paquay, Francois S (2008): Os isotope record of ODP Site 159-959 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832393, Supplement to: Ravizza, GE; Paquay, FS (2008): Os isotope chemostratigraphy applied to organic-rich marine sediments from the Eocene-Oligocene transition on the West African margin (ODP Site 959). Paleoceanography, 23(2), PA2204, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007PA001460
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Abstract:
The known temporal relationship between the benthic foraminiferal d18O record and the marine Os isotope record is used to reinterpret the absolute chronology and paleoceanographic context of an episode of organic carbon burial on the West African margin Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 959. Although organic-rich sediments require significant corrections for in situ decay of 187Re to 187Os, these results demonstrate the utility of the marine Os isotope record for chemostratigraphic correlation of organic-rich sediments that are devoid of age diagnostic microfossils with pelagic carbonate sequences. Revision of the ODP Site 959 chronology shifts the age assignment of an interval of biosiliceous, organic-rich sediment deposition from the Oligocene to the late Eocene and earliest Oligocene, likely culminating with the first major glaciation of the Oligocene (Oi1). We speculate that enhanced organic carbon burial over much of the West African margin may have contributed to drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide before and during the Oi1 event and suggest that Os isotope chemostratigraphy provides a valuable tool for further exploring this possibility.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Latitude: 3.627600 * Longitude: -2.735467
Date/Time Start: 1995-01-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-01-24T00:00:00
Event(s):
159-959 * Latitude: 3.627600 * Longitude: -2.735467 * Date/Time Start: 1995-01-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-01-24T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2090.8 m * Penetration: 2003.6 m * Recovery: 1265.1 m * Location: Gulf of Guinea * Campaign: Leg159 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Composite Core (COMPCORE) * Comment: 170 cores; 1585.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 79.8% recovery
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- Ravizza, GE; Paquay, FS (2008): (Table S1) Os isotope records of bulk sediment samples of ODP Site 159-959. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832392
- Ravizza, GE; Paquay, FS (2008): (Table 1) Re-Os isotope records of partial dissolution samples of ODP Site 159-959. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832391