North Atlantic Palaeoceanography (Geological Society Special Publication 21)

North Atlantic Palaeoceanography......Page 2
ISBN 0-632-01516-0......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediment flux to the central North
Atlantic Ocean......Page 8
Evidence for changes in Mesozoic and Cenozoic oceanic
circulation on the south-western
continental margin of Ireland:
DSDP/IPOD Leg 80......Page 22
Mesozoic-Cenozoic clastic depositional environments
revealed by DSDP Leg 93 drilling on
the continental rise off the eastern United States......Page 40
Late Cretaceous anoxic events, sea-level changes and
the evolution of the planktonic foraminifera......Page 72
Unconformities in the Cenozoic of the North-East Atlantic......Page 84
Sedimentation on mid-ocean sediment drifts......Page 92
Late Neogene submarine erosion events along the
north-east Atlantic continental margin......Page 108
Sediment waves in the eastern equatorial Atlantic:
sediment record during Late Glacial and Interglacial times......Page 124
Turbidite deposition and the origin of the Madeira Abyssal Plain......Page 136
Late Weichselian transgression, erosion and sedimentation at
Gullfaks, northern North Sea......Page 150
Neogene deep and surface water palaeoceanography......Page 158
North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures for the last 1.1 million
years......Page 160
Meltwater influences and palaeocirculation changes
in the North Atlantic
during the last glacial termination......Page 180
Late Pliocene to Recent planktonic foraminifera from the North
Atlantic (DSDP Site 552A): quantitative palaeotemperature
analysis......Page 186
North-east Atlantic Neogene benthic foraminiferal
faunas: tracers of deep-water palaeoceanography......Page 196
Early to Middle Miocene benthic foraminiferal faunas
from DSDP Sites 608 and 610, North Atlantic......Page 210
Miocene to Recent bottom water masses of the
north-east Atlantic: an analysis of benthic foraminifera......Page 224
Palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic development
in the Pliocene North Atlantic:
Discoaster accumulation and coarse fraction data......Page 236
Diatom biostratigraphic and palaeoceanographic interpretations
for the middle to high latitude
North Atlantic Ocean......Page 248
Mesozoic palaeoceanography and black shales......Page 258
Pulsation tectonics as the control of
North Atlantic palaeoceanography......Page 260
Role of climate in affecting late Jurassic and early Cretaceous sedimentation in the North Atlantic......Page 282
Palaeoceanographic setting of the Callovian North Atlantic......Page 288
Mesozoic palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic
and Tethys Oceans......Page 304
Changes in the organic carbon burial during the Early Cretaceous......Page 326
Organic geochemistry of Cretaceous organic-carbon-rich shales
and limestones from the western North Atlantic Ocean......Page 338
Geolipids of black shales and claystones in
Cretaceous and Jurassic sediment sequences
from the North American Basin......Page 352
Turbidites, the principal mechanism yielding black shales
in the early deep Atlantic Ocean......Page 366
Comparison of Mesozoic carbonaceous claystones in the western and eastern North Atlantic (DSDP Legs 76, 79 and 93)......Page 382
Organic-rich sedimentation at the Cenomanian-Turonian
boundary in oceanic and coastal basins in the
North Atlantic and Tethys......Page 394
Mid-Cretaceous of the Gibraltar Arch Area......Page 428
The inorganic geochemistry of Cretaceous black shales
(DSDP Leg 41) in comparison to modern upwelling
sediments from the Gulf of California......Page 452
Index......Page 468