Late Oligocene to Pliocene sea-level cycle events in the Baltimore Canyon Trough and Western North Atlantic Basin
Biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic analyses are used to construct a record of sea-level cycle events and to determine the relationship between these events and /sup 18/O inferred paleotemperature changes. Upper Oligocene to lower Miocene marine sediments in the Baltimore Canyon Trough off New Jersey are overlain by a middle(.) Miocene to upper Pliocene deltaic complex. A late Oligocene decrease in paleobathymetry in the Baltimore Canyon Trough may correspond to a glacial ice-volume inferred ..delta../sup 18/O increase in planktic and benthic foraminifera at DSDP Site 563. An early Miocene rise of sea-level in the Baltimore Canyon Trough is correlated with a decrease in foraminiferal ..delta../sup 18/O values at Site 563. A sea-level fall allows this event in the Baltimore Canyon Trough during the late early Miocene. A hiatus corresponding to this interval is present at Site 563. A decrease in ..delta../sup 18/O values at Site 563 in the upper middle Miocene suggests a decrease in glacial ice-volume. A corresponding marine incursion in the upper middle Miocene interrupted deltaic deposition in the distal parts of the Baltimore Canyon Trough. A gradual change in the benthic foraminiferal assemblage at Site 563 begins prior to, and continues after, a major increase in benthic ..delta../sup 18/O values in the early middle Miocene and, thus, does not appear to have been initiated by the shift. Increases in the abundance of the mid-latitude planktic foraminifer Globorotalia miozea at Site 563 are inversely correlated with changes in surface water paleo-temperatures inferred from /sup 18/O data.
- Research Organization:
- Rutgers-the State Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6904298
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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