Abstract
On the basis of the predominance of higher plant (terrestrial) kerogen at this continental rise site, a model for the preferential survival of the land-derived organic matter is proposed; planktonic matter produced by high bioproductivity in the upwelling waters of the Tertiary is poorly preserved. Slumping and turbidity flow are shown to be mechanisms for the emplacement into the deep-water rise setting of organic-rich sediments, originally deposited under oxygen-minimum conditions on the shelf edge. -Author
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Cornford, C. (1979). Organic deposition at a continental rise: organic geochemical interpretation and synthesis at DSDP site 397, eastern North Atlantic. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 47, Las Palmas, Canary Islands to Vigo, Spain, 1976, (Scripps Institution of Oceanography; UK Distributors, IPOD Committee, NERC, Swindon), 503–510. https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.47-1.119.1979
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