Neogene and Paleocene- Maestrichtian calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy, Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 604-605, upper continental rise off New Jersey: sedimentation rates, hiatuses, and correlations with seismic stratigraphy.

Abstract

Maestrichtian to Holocene calcareous nannofossils from two closely spaced sites on the upper continental rise some 100 miles (161 km) southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, were zoned in order to help date a major canyon-cutting event in the late Miocene and to delineate and correlate other hiatuses with seismic stratigraphy. Mid-middle Eocene through middle Miocene sediments (Zones CP14 to CN6) were not recovered in these holes, but nearly all other zones are accounted for. The Eocene section is described in a companion chapter (Applegate and Wise, Leg 83 volume). -from Authors