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Chronostratigraphic Framework For The Iodp Expedition 318 Cores From The Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints For Paleoceanographic Reconstruction, Lisa Tauxe, Catherine E. Stickley, Saiko Sugisaki, Peter K. Bijl, Steven M. Bohaty, Henk Brinkhuis, Carlota Escutia, J. A. Flores, A. J. P. Houben, M. Iwai, Francisco J. Jiménez‐Espejo, Robert Mckay, Sandra Passchier, Jörg Pross, Christina Riesselman, Ursula Röhl, Francesca Sangiorgi, Kevin Welsh, Adam Klaus, Annick Fehr, James Bendle, Robert B. Dunbar, J. Gonzàlez, T. Hayden, K. Katsuki, M. P. Olney, Stephen Pekar, P. K. Shrivastava, Tina Van De Flierdt, Trevor Williams, M. Yamane
Chronostratigraphic Framework For The Iodp Expedition 318 Cores From The Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints For Paleoceanographic Reconstruction, Lisa Tauxe, Catherine E. Stickley, Saiko Sugisaki, Peter K. Bijl, Steven M. Bohaty, Henk Brinkhuis, Carlota Escutia, J. A. Flores, A. J. P. Houben, M. Iwai, Francisco J. Jiménez‐Espejo, Robert Mckay, Sandra Passchier, Jörg Pross, Christina Riesselman, Ursula Röhl, Francesca Sangiorgi, Kevin Welsh, Adam Klaus, Annick Fehr, James Bendle, Robert B. Dunbar, J. Gonzàlez, T. Hayden, K. Katsuki, M. P. Olney, Stephen Pekar, P. K. Shrivastava, Tina Van De Flierdt, Trevor Williams, M. Yamane
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[1] The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 318 to the Wilkes Land margin of Antarctica recovered a sedimentary succession ranging in age from lower Eocene to the Holocene. Excellent stratigraphic control is key to understanding the timing of paleoceanographic events through critical climate intervals. Drill sites recovered the lower and middle Eocene, nearly the entire Oligocene, the Miocene from about 17 Ma, the entire Pliocene and much of the Pleistocene. The paleomagnetic properties are generally suitable for magnetostratigraphic interpretation, with well‐behaved demagnetization diagrams, uniform distribution of declinations, and a clear separation into two inclination modes. Although the sequences were discontinuously …
Evaluating Potential Post-Flood Boundaries With Biostratigraphy--The Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary, Marcus R. Ross
Evaluating Potential Post-Flood Boundaries With Biostratigraphy--The Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary, Marcus R. Ross
Marcus R. Ross
Here I report a biostratigraphic analysis of 303 genera from 28 North American terrestrial mammalian families, in which all families contain members that are either extant or last appear in Pliocene or Pleistocene deposits. The distribution of these taxa within the Cenozoic rock record is used to evaluate proposed demarcations for the Flood/post-Flood boundary. A pronounced biostratigraphic break is expected at the Flood/post-Flood boundary since the final devastation and burial of pre-Flood nephesh creatures should be stratigraphically overlain by the arrival of post-Flood migrants. It is found that when the Flood/post-Flood boundary is placed at or near the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary, …