Quantitative analysis of siliceous microfossils in 210Pb-dated Lake Michigan sediments shows five time zones in microfossil abundance and composition. Sediments deposited before 1885 contain low abundances comprising species associated with very oligotrophic lakes. Between 1885 and 1925 abundance increases slowly as does the ratio of planktonic diatoms to benthic diatoms and chrysophyte remains...

The Cenomanian-Turonian Gharesu section in the east of Kopet-Dagh basin have been investigated to determine the relationship between palaeoenvironmental perturbations and nitrogen cycling across OAE2. This succession is composed of 43 m shale and marl interbedded with glauconitic sandstone and lies between Aitamir-Abderaz formations boundary. The nitrogen Isotope values fluctuate between 0‰ to ...

The study of existing cores collected across the Wilkes Land margin provides us with a better understanding of the sediment distribution and processes across this margin during the Holocene, and during Pleistocene glacial and interglacial cycles. Holocene depositional rates are high in deep (>1000m) inner-shelf basins where diatomaceous ooze is deposited at estimated minimum sedimentation rates...

Rapid sedimentation by fine-grained sediments on the upper slope of the New Jersey margin has generated nearly lithostatic fluid pressures. We use measured porosity from ODP Site 1073 to predict the in situ fluid pressures. We then simulate the pressure history with one-dimensional and two-dimensional sedimentation-compaction models. Two-dimensional models simulate a compaction-driven flow fiel...

This paper synthesizes data collected to document the modern limnological and sedimentary processes in South Sawtooth Lake located on northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Field observations show that the finely laminated sediments deposited in the distal basin are formed by the settling of overflows and interflows, and in rare occasions, by non-erosive hyperconcentrated density flows. Th...

Deltas – landforms created where sediment is deposited at the mouth of a river – bury vast amounts of organic carbon, thereby playing a central role in the biogeochemical carbon and sulphur cycles (Fig. 1). Delta sediments are highly heterogeneous, varying over space and time, with important consequences for the interaction of sediments with biogeochemical processes. Understanding this complexi...

miocene silisiclastic sediments in binalood zone consist of three lithofacies group including gravelly (gmm, gcm, gci, gh, gt, gp), sandy (st, sm, sh, sp, ss, sl) and muddy (fm, fl). gravelly lithofacies are generally massive and mainly consist of volcanic and sedimentary lithic in different size. sandy lithofacies are composed of litharenite and feldespathic volcanicarenite and rock fragments ...

This paper delineates our use of10 708 km of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data from the continental margin of Trinidad and TobagoWest Indies to describe a series of mass transport complexes (MTCs) that were deposited during the Plio-Pleistocene.This area, situated along the obliquely converging boundary of the Caribbean/SouthAmerican plates and proximal to theOrinoco Delta, is characterized b...

Lacustrine sediments from the 24 km diameter Boltysh impact structure record the rapid formation of an intra-crater lake. Stable isotope compositions and organic maturity parameters from the lake sediments deposited post-impact show that they were heated by underlying impactites. This heating is attributed to the establishment of an impactgenerated hydrothermal system. Estimates of the duration...