DSDP Site 603; first deep (>1000-m) penetration of the continental rise along the passive margin of eastern North America

Drilling at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603 has provided the first deep (> 1000-m) penetration of strata beneath the continental rise off the Atlantic margin of North America. Nearly continuously cored through 1585 m of section down to Berriasian pelagic limestones, the site 435 km (270 mi) ea...

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Published in:Geology (Boulder) 1985-01, Vol.13 (6), p.392-396
Main Authors: Van Hinte, Jan E, Wise, Jr, Biart, Brian N. M, Covington, J. Mitchener, Dunn, Dean A, Haggerty, Janet A, Johns, Mark W, Meyers, Philip A, Moullade, Michel R, Muza, Jay P, Ogg, James G, Okamura, Makoto, Sarti, Massimo, von Rad, Ulrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
algae
Atlantic Ocean
biostratigraphy
Cenozoic
clastic rocks
continental rise
cores
Cretaceous
cyclic processes
Deep Sea Drilling Project
deep-sea sedimentation
DSDP Site 603
environmental analysis
geophysical profiles
IPOD
Leg 93
Leg 95
lithostratigraphy
Marine
marine sedimentation
marine sediments
Mesozoic
microfossils
nannofossils
North American Atlantic
ocean floors
oceanography
passive margins
petroleum
Plantae
plate tectonics
possibilities
processes
regression
sea-level changes
sedimentary rocks
sedimentation
sedimentation rates
sediments
seismic stratigraphy
stratigraphy
submarine fans
Tertiary
thallophytes
transgression
turbidite
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Summary:Drilling at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603 has provided the first deep (> 1000-m) penetration of strata beneath the continental rise off the Atlantic margin of North America. Nearly continuously cored through 1585 m of section down to Berriasian pelagic limestones, the site 435 km (270 mi) east of Cape Hatteras intersected an extensive Lower Cretaceous deep-sea fan complex, which provides new information on the petroleum potential of the continental rise. Hauterivian to early Aptian in age, this 208-m interval of interbedded limestones, sand, and black shale turbidites begs the existence of any post-Valanginian reefs along the Baltimore Canyon Trough. The section at Site 603 confirms the concept that eustatic and other large-scale events subdivide Earth history into distinct chapters allowing the correlation of deep-sea seismic sequence boundaries with continental shelf and margin unconformities.
ISSN:0091-7613
1943-2682
DOI:10.1130/0091-7613(1985)13<392:DSFDMP>2.0.CO;2