Leg 159

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Scientific Results volume citation

    Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), 1998. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.1998

Scientific Results chapter citations

    Allerton, S., 1998. Paleomagnetic results from Holes 959D and 960A, Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 199–207. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.045.1998

    Ask, M., 1998. In situ stress at the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana marginal ridge from FMS logging in Hole 959D. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 209–223. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.026.1998

    Basile, C., Ginet, J.M., and Pezard, P., 1998. Post-tectonic subsidence of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana marginal ridge: insights from FMS data. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 81–91. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.005.1998

    Basile, C., Mascle, J., Benkhelil, J., and Bouillin, J.-P., 1998. Geodynamic evolution of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: an overview of Leg 159 results. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 101–110. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.048.1998

    Bellier, J.-P., 1998. Cretaceous planktonic foraminifers, eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 335–345. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.014.1998

    Benkhelil, J., Guiraud, M., and Paccolat, J., 1998. Décollement structures along the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 25–33. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.008.1998

    Benkhelil, J., Mascle, J., and Guiraud, M., 1998. Sedimentary and structural characteristics of the Cretaceous along the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin and in the Benue Trough: a comparison. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 93–99. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.007.1998

    Benkhelil, J., Mascle, J., and Huguen, C., 1998. Deformation patterns and tectonic regimes of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin as deduced from Leg 159 results. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 13–23. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.006.1998

    Bignot, G., 1998. Middle Eocene benthic foraminifers from Holes 960A and 960C, central Atlantic Ocean. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 433–444. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.017.1998

    Bouillin, J.-P., Poupeau, G., Basile, C., Labrin, E., and Mascle, J., 1998. Thermal constraints on the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: evidence from apatite fission tracks. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 43–48. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.047.1998

    Clift, P.D., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J., 1998. Apatite fission track analysis of Sites 959 and 960 on the transform continental margin of Ghana, West Africa. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 35–41. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.004.1998

    Edwards, R.A., 1998. Integration of seismic reflection, physical properties, and downhole logging data. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 225–240. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.028.1998

    Erbacher, J., 1998. Mid-Cretaceous radiolarians from the eastern equatorial Atlantic and their paleoceanography. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 363–373. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.037.1998

    Giresse, P., Gadel, F., Serve, L., and Barusseau, J.P., 1998. Indicators of climate and sediment-source variations at Site 959: implications for the reconstruction of paleoenvironments in the Gulf of Guinea through Pleistocene times. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 585–603. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.041.1998

    Gonçalves, C.A., 1998. Lithologic interpretation of downhole logging data from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: a statistical approach. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 157–170. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.031.1998

    Gonçalves, C.A., and Ewert, L., 1998. Evaluation of the geochemical logging data in Hole 959D: Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 171–179. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.032.1998

    Guernet, C., 1998. Neogene and Pleistocene ostracodes, Sites 959 and 960, Gulf of Guinea. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 525–531. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.019.1998

    Hisada, K., Arai, S., and Yamaguchi, T., 1998. Detrital chromian spinels from Site 960 in the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 133–139. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.003.1998

    Hisada, K., Kajiwara, Y., and Yamaguchi, T., 1998. Sulfur-isotope studies of upper Albian sediments at the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 125–131. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.011.1998

    Holbourn, A.E.L., and Kuhnt, W., 1998. Turonian–Santonian benthic foraminifer assemblages from Site 959D (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin, equatorial Atlantic): indication of a Late Cretaceous oxygen minimum zone. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 375–387. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.038.1998

    Holbourn, A.E.L., and Moullade, M., 1998. Lower Cretaceous benthic foraminifer assemblages, equatorial Atlantic: biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and paleobiogeographic significance. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 347–362. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.033.1998

    Holmes, M.A., 1998. Thermal diagenesis of Cretaceous sediment recovered at the Côte d'Ivoire Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 53–70. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.001.1998

    Janik, A.G., Hood, J.A., and Ask, M., 1998. Physical properties data at Hole 959D: comparison of core and log measurements and a proposed revision of lithologic units. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 241–249. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.044.1998

    Kuhnt, W., Moullade, M., and Kaminski, M., 1998. Upper Cretaceous, K/T boundary, and Paleocene agglutinated foraminifers from Hole 959D (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin). In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 389–411. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.039.1998

    Lespinasse, M.C., Leroy, J.L., Pironon, J., and Boiron, M.-C., 1998. The paleofluids from the marginal ridge of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin (Hole 960A) as thermal indicators. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 49–52. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.043.1998

    Lévy, A., Mathieu, R., Poignant, A., and Rosset-Moulinier, M., 1998. Data report: distribution of Pleistocene benthic foraminifers from the eastern equatorial Atlantic Ocean. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 605–610. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.020.1998

    Marcano, M.C., Lohmann, K.C., and Pickett, E.A., 1998. Uplift and exposure history of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: geochemistry of pore-filling and fracture vein calcites. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 71–79. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.010.1998

    Masure, E., Rauscher, R., Dejax, J., Schuler, M., and Ferré, B., 1998. Cretaceous–Paleocene palynology from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin, Sites 959, 960, 961, and 962. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 253–276. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.040.1998

    Morita, S., and Taira, A., 1998. Magnetic fabric analysis of sediments from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 189–197. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.042.1998

    Moullade, M., Watkins, D.K., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Bellier, J.-P., Masure, E., Holbourn, A.E.L., Erbacher, J., Kuhnt, W., Pletsch, T., Kaminski, M.A., Rauscher, R., Shafik, S., Yepes, O., Dejax, J., Gregg, J.M., Shin, I.C., and Schuler, M., 1998. Mesozoic biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and paleobiogeographic synthesis, equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 481–490. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.049.1998

    Norris, R.D., 1998. Miocene–Pliocene surface-water hydrography of the eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 539–555. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.021.1998

    Norris, R.D., 1998. Planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphy: eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 445–479. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.036.1998

    Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Yepes, O., and Gregg, J.M., 1998. Palynostratigraphy, palynofacies, and thermal maturation of Cretaceous–Paleocene sediments from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 277–318. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.016.1998

    Pickett, E.A., and Allerton, S., 1998. Structural observations from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 3–11. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.002.1998

    Pletsch, T., 1998. Origin of lower Eocene palygorskite clays in the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin, eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 141–156. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.012.1998

    Ravizza, G., 1998. Osmium-isotope geochemistry of Site 959: implications for Re-Os sedimentary geochronology and reconstruction of past variations in the Os-isotopic composition of seawater. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 181–186. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.035.1998

    Schellpeper, M.E., and Watkins, D.K., 1998. Oligocene to early Miocene silicoflagellates from the Ivorian Basin, eastern equatorial Atlantic, Site 959. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 493–508. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.025.1998

    Shafik, S., Watkins, D.K., and Shin, I.C., 1998. Calcareous nannofossil Paleogene biostratigraphy, Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana marginal ridge, eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 413–431. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.015.1998

    Shafik, S., Watkins, D.K., and Shin, I.C., 1998. Upper Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy, Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana margin, eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 509–523. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.022.1998

    Shin, I.C., 1998. Pliocene–Pleistocene paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic history of Site 959, eastern equatorial Atlantic Ocean. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 575–583. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.046.1998

    Shin, I.C., Shafik, S., and Watkins, D.K., 1998. High-resolution Pliocene–Pleistocene biostratigraphy of Site 959, eastern equatorial Atlantic Ocean. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 533–538. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.024.1998

    Strand, K., 1998. Sedimentary facies and sediment composition changes in response to tectonics of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 113–123. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.009.1998

    Wagner, T., 1998. Pliocene–Pleistocene deposition of carbonate and organic carbon at Site 959: paleoenvironmental implications for the eastern equatorial Atlantic off the Ivory Coast/Ghana. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 557–574. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.018.1998

    Watkins, D.K., Shafik, S., and Shin, I.C., 1998. Calcareous nannofossils from the Cretaceous of the Deep Ivorian Basin. In Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., and Moullade, M. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 319–333. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.159.013.1998

Journals/Books (notify us)

    Beckmann, B., Floegel, S., Hofmann, P., Schulz, M., and Wagner, T., 2005. Orbital forcing of Cretaceous river discharge in tropical Africa and ocean response. Nature, 437:241–244. doi:10.1038/nature03976

    Giresse, P., and Wiewióra, A., 2001. Stratigraphic condensed deposition and diagenetic evolution of green clay minerals in deep water sediments on the Ivory Coast-Ghana Ridge. Mar. Geol., 179:51–70. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00193-1

    Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., and Soeding, E., 2001. Atlantic paleobathymetry, paleoproductivity and paleocirculation in the late Albian: the benthic foraminiferal record. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 170:171–196. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00223-1

    Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Yepes, O., 1997. Palynofacies analysis of sediments from the Côte d'Ivoire—Ghana transform margin: preliminary correlation with some regional events in the Equatorial Atlantic. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 129:291–314. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00125-3

    Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Hoffmeister, A., and Christfield, R., 1999. Cyclical distribution of dispersed organic matter and dinocysts, ODP Site 959 (early Oligocene–early Miocene, Côte D'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin). Palynology, 23:87–96. Abstract; JSTOR web site

    Pletch, T., Erbacher, J., Holbourn, A.E.L., Kuhnt, W., Moullade, M., Oboh-Ikuenobede, F.E., Söding, E., and Wagner, T., 2001. Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159). J. South Am. Earth Sci., 14:147–174. doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(01)00020-7

    Ravizza, G., and Paquay, F., 2008. Os isotope chemostratigraphy applied to organic-rich marine sediments from the Eocene-Oligocene transition on the West African margin (ODP Site 959). Paleoceanography, 23(2):PA2204. doi:10.1029/2007PA001460

    Schumacher, S., and Lazarus, D., 2004. Regional differences in pelagic productivity in the late Eocene to early Oligocene—a comparison of southern high latitudes and lower latitudes. In Kiessling, W., and Lazarus, D. (Eds.), Mesozoic–Cenozoic Bioevents, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 214:243–263. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.06.018

    Wagner, T., 2002. Late Cretaceous to early Quaternary organic sedimentation in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 179:113–147. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00415-1

    Wagner, T., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Hofmann, P., and Beckmann, B., 2004. Euxinia and primary production in Late Cretaceous eastern equatorial Atlantic surface waters fostered orbitally driven formation of marine black shales. Paleoceanography, 19. doi:10.1029/2003PA000898

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