Initial core descriptions. Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 95, August 17-September 26, 1983, New Jersey Transect.

Abstract

Contains written and graphic descriptions of two continuous core drilled sites on the middle slope and upper rise of the New Jersey Transect. Five distinct lithologic units are documented at Site 612. The lowermost unit V is of Campanian age. In unit IV calcareous nannofossil groups are well represented and indicate an age of early and middle Maestrichtian. Both units II and III contain bathyal microfossil assemblages. The abundance of siliceous microfossils is especially notable in unit II. Unit I is too thin to be easily separated into subunits. For Site 613 three distinct lithologic units are documented, the lowermost unit III comprising of early Eocene nannofossils. Both calcareous and siliceous microfossils are abundant and well preserved in unit II. Unit I is composed of a complex sequence of interbedded, greenish gray mud or calcareous mud, glauconitic or pyritic silty sand and sandy mud. The section was not continuously cored.-after Author