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Disconformities and paleoceanography in the Southeast Indian Ocean during the past 5.4 million years
Noel I. Osborn, Paul F. Ciesielski and Michael T. Ledbetter
Disconformities and paleoceanography in the Southeast Indian Ocean during the past 5.4 million years
Geological Society of America Bulletin (November 1983) 94 (11): 1345-1358
Disconformities and paleoceanography in the Southeast Indian Ocean during the past 5.4 million years
Geological Society of America Bulletin (November 1983) 94 (11): 1345-1358
Index Terms/Descriptors
- algae
- Antarctic Ocean
- biostratigraphy
- bottom currents
- Cenozoic
- cores
- currents
- diatoms
- East Indian Ocean
- erosional unconformities
- geochronology
- Indian Ocean
- Invertebrata
- magnetostratigraphy
- marine sediments
- microfossils
- Mid-Indian Ridge
- Neogene
- ocean circulation
- oceanography
- paleo-oceanography
- paleocirculation
- paleoclimatology
- paleomagnetism
- Plantae
- Pleistocene
- Pliocene
- Protista
- Quaternary
- sediments
- Silicoflagellata
- Southeast Indian Ridge
- stratigraphy
- Tertiary
- unconformities
- Antarctic bottom water
- Circumpolar Deep Water
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy used to identify deep-sea disconformities. Increased bottom-water activity and deep-sea circulation patterns. The causes of increased bottom-water activity may be correlated with paleoclimatic events.--Modified journal abstract
ISSN: 0016-7606
EISSN: 1943-2674
Coden: BUGMAF
Serial Title: Geological Society of America Bulletin
Serial Volume: 94
Serial Issue: 11
Title: Disconformities and paleoceanography in the Southeast Indian Ocean during the past 5.4 million years
Affiliation: Univ. Ga., Dep. Geol.,
Athens, GA,
United States
Pages: 1345-1358
Published: 198311
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
References: 55
Accession Number: 1983-058665
Categories: OceanographyQuaternary geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. sketch maps
S60°00'00" - S33°00'00", E78°30'00" - E156°00'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2019, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1983
