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Table T2. Locations, descriptions, and characteristics of marker beds.

Bed Core Top
depth
(mbsf)
Top
depth
(mcd)
Thickness
(cm)
General description from barrel sheet Additional data, including nannofossil reworking
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1 1091A-1H-3 3.5 3.5 32 Pale olive graded bed, 5-mm pale basal layer
1091B-1H-2 2.4 2.4 18 Graded bed with sharp lower contact
2 1091A-3H-6 25.1 27.3 10(?) Sharp lower contact
1091B-4H-1 28.2 27.3 12 Pale brown layer with ~3-mm graded coarse lamina at base
1091E-3H-4 18.5 27.5 12
3 1091A-5H-6 43.4 45.7 10 Pale green gray Contains reworked early Pleistocene, early Pliocene, and Oligocene to Eocene nannofossils (1091A)
1091B-6H-1 46.6 45.7 12 Graded bed
1091D-5H-2 33.9 45.7 12 Pale yellowish tan, sharp contact with thin black layer, overlain by thin foraminifer layer
1091E-5H-3 36.0 44.6 12
4 1091A-7H-3 56.5 60.4 15 Contains reworked nannofossils (1091A)
1091B-7H-5 61.6 60.4 16
1091D-7H-1 52.4 61.0 25(?)
5 1091A-9H-4 79.1 83.6 7 Light yellow 20.7% CaCO3
1091D-9H-3 73.8 83.6 11 Pale olive, coarser grained, sharp basal contact
6 1091A-11H-4 97.7 103.4 13 Pale olive, with sharp lower contact Contains reworked early Miocene-Oligocene nannofossils (1091A)
1091D-11H-2 90.7 103.4 11 Pale olive
7 1091A-16H-3 144.1 158.0 59 Tan, sharp contacts
1091D-16H-2 139.2 155.1 34 Pale brownish gray, turbidite layer (?)
8 1091A-19H-2 170.6 186.7 13 Pinkish tan interval
1091B-19H-5 175.5 186.7 19 Green brown
1091D-19H-1 166.0 186.7 19 Pale olive with sharp basal contact
9 1091A-26H-2 236.7 258.4 9 Tan
1091B-26H-4 241.2 258.4 7 Laminations at bottom
10 1091A-26H-4 240.4 262.1 5 Laminations at bottom
1091B-27H-2 248.2 267.2 12 Gray interval with scoured base, cross-stratified above and planar laminated above this

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