Ocean Drilling Program

Leg 198 Preliminary Report

Extreme Warmth in the Cretaceous and Paleogene:
a Depth Transect on Shatsky Rise, Central Pacific

27 August–23 October 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• TITLE PAGE
• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
• SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC PARTY
• OVERVIEW
• INTRODUCTION
  • Tectonic Evolution of Shatsky Rise
  • Stratigraphy of Shatsky Rise
  • Oceanography
• DETAILED SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
  • Long- and Short-Term Warming in the Paleogene
  • Mid- and Late Cretaceous Climate
  • Mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events
  • General Early Cretaceous Paleoceanography
  • Nature and Age of Shatsky Rise Basement
• PRINCIPAL RESULTS
  • Site 1207
  • Site 1208
  • Site 1209
  • Site 1210
  • Site 1211
  • Site 1212
  • Site 1213
  • Site 1214
• SPECIALTY SYNTHESES
  • Lithostratigraphy
  • Biostratigraphy
  • Paleomagnetism
  • Physical Properties, Downhole Measurements, and Core Logging
  • Geochemistry
• SUMMARY OF RESULTS
  • A Classic Record of the Early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event
  • Learning from Chert on Shatsky Rise
  • Mid-Maastrichtian Event: Death on the Seafloor
  • Multicore Record of the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary on Shatsky Rise
  • Rhythmic Record of Paleogene Deep-Ocean Circulation
  • A Depth Transect at the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum
  • Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
  • Unique Neogene Section
  • Not-Quite Basement from Shatsky Rise
  • Revised Geologic History of Shatsky Rise
• OPERATIONS
  • Transit from Yokohama to Site 1207
  • Site 1207
  • Transit from Site 1207 to Site 1208
  • Site 1208
  • Transit from Site 1208 to Site 1209
  • Site 1209
  • Transit from Site 1209 to Site 1210
  • Site 1210
  • Transit from Site 1210 to Site 1211
  • Site 1211
  • Transit from Site 1211 to Site 1212
  • Site 1212
  • Transit from Site 1212 to Site 1213
  • Site 1213
  • Transit from Site 1213 to Site 1211
  • Return to Site 1211
  • Transit from Site 1211 to Site 1214
  • Site 1214
  • Transit from Site 1214 to Honolulu, Hawaii
• REFERENCES
• TABLES AND TABLE CAPTIONS
• FIGURES AND FIGURE CAPTIONS

Date posted: 8 January 2002

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