Ocean Drilling Program

Leg 202 Preliminary Report

Southeast Pacific Paleoceanographic Transects

29 March-30 May 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• TITLE PAGE
  
• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
  
• SHIPBOARD PARTICIPANTS
  
  • Shipboard Scientific Party
    
  • Observers
    
  • Transocean Officials
    
  • ODP Shipboard Personnel and Technical Representatives
    
• ABSTRACT
  
• INTRODUCTION
  
  • Leg Objectives
    
  • Oceanographic Setting
    
  • Tectonic Setting
    
• OPERATIONAL INNOVATIONS
  
  • Maximizing APC Penetration: Drilling Over
    
  • Stratigraphic Correlation I
    
  • Tidal Effects on Coring Offsets
    
  • Use of Color Reflectance Spectroscopy in Lithostratigraphy
    
  • Digital Imaging of Cores
    
• BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, MAGNETOSTRATIGRPAHY, AGE MODELS, AND SEDIMENTATION RATES
  
  • Geomagnetic Field Behavior
    
  • Cenozoic Biostratigraphic and Magnetostratigraphic Reference Sections
    
  • Linear Sedimentation Rates
    
• BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS
  
  • Organic Matter Oxidation: Sulfate Reduction, Methanogenesis, and Nutrient Regeneration
    
  • Sedimentary Organic Matter: Competing Influences and the Importance of Dilution
    
  • Authigenic Mineralization: Calcium and Magnesium Profiles in Interstitial Waters
    
  • Chloride Profiles: Gas Hydrates in Two Chile Margin Sites
    
  • Fluid Flow in Basement: Panama Basin Site 1240
    
• TECTONICS AND CLIMATE
  
  • Andean Uplift, Eolian Dust, Volcanism, Climate Change, and Biogeochemistry
    
  • Closure of the Isthmus of Panama
    
• ORBITAL-SCALE CLIMATE VARIABILITY
  
• MILLENNIAL-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGES: POLAR, TROPICAL, OR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSES?
  
• SUMMARY AND PERSPECTIVES
  
• LEG 202 SITE SUMMARIES
  
  • Site 1232
    
  • Site 1233
    
  • Site 1234
    
  • Site 1235
    
  • Site 1236
    
  • Site 1237
    
  • Site 1238
    
  • Site 1239
    
  • Site 1240
    
  • Site 1241
    
  • Site 1242
    
• REFERENCES
  
• TABLE CAPTIONS AND TABLES
  
• FIGURE CAPTIONS AND FIGURES
  

Date posted: 30 September 2002

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