Ocean Drilling Program

Leg 199 Preliminary Report

Paleogene Equatorial Transect

23 October–16 December 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
• SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC PARTY
• 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
  • Major Lithologies of the Paleogene Equatorial Pacific
  • Paleogene CCD
  • Equatorial Position
  • Fluxes and Paleoproductivity
  • Stratigraphic Intercalibrations
  • Oligocene–Miocene Boundary Interval
  • Oligocene
  • Eocene–Oligocene Transition
  • Eocene Radiolarian Ooze
  • Paleocene/Eocene Boundary
• OPERATIONAL AND LOGISTICAL ASPECTS OF THE PALEOGENE TRANSECT
• SITE SUMMARIES
  • Site 1215
  • Site 1216
  • Site 1217
  • Site 1218
  • Site 1219
  • Site 1220
  • Site 1221
  • Site 1222
• OPERATIONS
  • Port Call—Honolulu
  • Transit to Site 1215 (PAT-15D)
  • Site 1215
  • Site 1216
  • Site 1217
  • Site 1218
  • Site 1219
  • Site 1220
  • Site 1221
  • Site 1222
• REFERENCES
• TABLES
• FIGURES

Date posted: 15 February 2002

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