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Main Authors: Ryan, William B F, Hsü, Kenneth J, Cita, Maria Bianca, Dumitrica, Paulian, Llort, Jennifer, Maync, Wolf, Nesteroff, Wladimir D, Pautot, Guy, Stradner, Herbert, Wezel, Forese C
Format: Dataset Open Access
Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 1973
Subjects:
13-126; Comment; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Identification; Leg13; Mediterranean Sea/RIDGE; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sediment type; Visual description
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.868807
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  • The single "raison d'être" for selecting Site 126 was to explore the pre-evaporite history of the eastern Mediterranean and hopefully to establish the paleoenvironment which preceded the Late Miocene salinity crisis. The selcetd site is in a deep cleft in the Mediterranean Ridge in the central Ionian Sea, a cleft that cuts more than 250 meters below the level of Horizon M and at the same time is floored by flat-lying sediments. A secondary objective of the cleft site-selection was to ascertain what kind of sediment makes up the horizontal fill and hopefully to determine some details of the history and mechanics of the depression-filling process.

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