ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

Upwelling, Productivity, and Equatorial Sedimentation

Pacific Plate Movement and the Cessation of Biogenic Sedimentation

Early Paleogene Warm Climates

General Circulation Model Reconstructions

Paleoceanographic Time Slices

Paleocene/Eocene Boundary

Eocene-Oligocene Transition

Late Eocene Impact Events

Oligocene

Previous Drilling

Leg 199 Objectives

RESULTS

OPERATIONAL AND LOGISTICAL ASPECTS OF THE PALEOGENE TRANSECT

SITE SUMMARIES

REFERENCES

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