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Main Authors: Plank, Terry, Balzer, Vaughn, Carr, Michael J
Format: Dataset Open Access
Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 2002
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.713295
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author Plank, Terry
Balzer, Vaughn
Carr, Michael J
author_facet Plank, Terry
Balzer, Vaughn
Carr, Michael J
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents A major oceanographic event preserved in the Cocos plate sedimentary column survived subduction and is recorded in the changing composition of Nicaraguan magmas. A uranium increase in these magmas since the latest Miocene (after 7 Ma) resulted from the 'carbonate crash' at 10 Ma and the ensuing high organic carbon burial in the sediments. The response of the arc to this paleoceanographic event requires near steady-state sediment recycling at this margin since 20 Ma. This relative stability in sediment subduction invites one of the first attempts to balance sedimentary input and arc output across a subduction zone. Calculations based on Th indicate that as much as 75% of the sedimentary column was subducted beneath the arc. The Nicaraguan margin is one of the few places to observe such strong links between the oceans and the solid earth.
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spellingShingle Chemical composition of ODP Leg 138 sediments
Plank, Terry
Balzer, Vaughn
Carr, Michael J
138-844B; 138-845A; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg138; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP
A major oceanographic event preserved in the Cocos plate sedimentary column survived subduction and is recorded in the changing composition of Nicaraguan magmas. A uranium increase in these magmas since the latest Miocene (after 7 Ma) resulted from the 'carbonate crash' at 10 Ma and the ensuing high organic carbon burial in the sediments. The response of the arc to this paleoceanographic event requires near steady-state sediment recycling at this margin since 20 Ma. This relative stability in sediment subduction invites one of the first attempts to balance sedimentary input and arc output across a subduction zone. Calculations based on Th indicate that as much as 75% of the sedimentary column was subducted beneath the arc. The Nicaraguan margin is one of the few places to observe such strong links between the oceans and the solid earth.
title Chemical composition of ODP Leg 138 sediments
topic 138-844B; 138-845A; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg138; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.713295