Publication Date:
2023-12-07
Description:
Baltimore Canyon Trough, the most intensely studied offshore sedimentary basin of the U.S. Atlantic margin, encompasses the coastal plain, continental shelf, and continental slope of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and (in part) Virginia. On the basis of the extensive published record of the geological and geophysical investigations of this area, the New Jersey margin was chosen as the most suitable location for constructing the first marginwide stratigraphic transect. As envisioned, the transect would extend from the outcrop belt in central New Jersey to a location 700 km distant on the lower continental rise. Initial Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) core holes on the slope and upper rise would emphasize the Cenozoic and Upper Cretaceous sections, as dictated by the limitations of openhole drilling. Leg 95 was principally intended to provide a crucial link between shelf and lower rise sites which had been cored along the transect during Leg 93.
Keywords:
95-612; 95-613; Comment; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Event label; Glomar Challenger; Identification; Leg95; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; North Atlantic/CONT RISE; North Atlantic/SLOPE; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sediment type; Visual description
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 48 data points
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