The Late Cenozoic Diatoms of Sites 183193, Leg 19 Deep Sea Drilling Project
The Late Cenozoic Diatoms of Sites 183193, Leg 19 Deep Sea Drilling Project
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183193号地点的晚新生代硅藻,第19段深海钻探项目
DOI:
10.2973/dsdp.proc.19.130.1973
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发表时间:
1973
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
I. Koizumi
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作者:
I. Koizumi
A large area of the sea floor of the North Pacific is occupied by siliceous sediments containing microfossils such as diatoms, silicoflagellata, and Radiolaria (Lisitsyn 1971). These siliceous sediments mainly consist of diatom valves, amorphous biogenous silica, except in the zone of radiolarian ooze north of the equator, around 10°N latitude (Riedel, 1959). The quantitative distribution of diatom valves in a unit weight of surface sediment layer of the Pacific Ocean was summarized by Jouse et al. (1969,1971). The micropaleontological studies on the cores from the North Pacific, owing to the lack of good carbonate components have been carried out in the field of siliceous microfossils, especially of diatoms. The first report on diatom stratigraphy in deep-sea cores from the North Pacific was done by Kolbe (1954). He showed that Tertiary species were restricted to the lower levels of core 76, taken by the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition from the equatorial part of the Pacific, and that there is a distinct difference between the lower and upper parts of the core. Since Kolbe, a number of workers from the Soviet Union have been very active in the study of the diatoms in the deep-sea cores from the North Pacific and its neighboring seas; namely the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan. Through their systematic researches, the Russian workers have become convinced (e.g. Jouse, 196Id, 1962) that (a) the diatom thanatocoenoses in the uppermost layer of the bottom sediments depend to a large extent on the biocoenoses in the water masses above, (b) the species composition reflects the Oceanographic conditions in the overlying water masses, (c) the geographical zonality of diatom assemblages in bottom sediments is well expressed in their present distribution in the Pacific Ocean, (d) climatic variations during the Quaternary caused the displacement of biogeographical zones in the ocean, synchronous with displacements of the upper water masses, and therefore (e) one may judge the thermal conditions at the time during the accumulation of sediments from the changes in the composition of diatom species (Jouse 196Id). Reports on the diatom stratigraphy of deep-sea cores are as follows: Seczkina (1959), on the diatoms in a long core from the Sea of Japan; Jousé (1961a, b), on the correlation of horizons marked by diatoms in long cores from the northwestern part of the Pacific; Jouse (1962), a thorough summary of diatom studies carried out by Russian workers in the Soviet Far East seas (Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan, and the northwestern part of the North Pacific); Jouse (1963), on the discussion of diatom stratigraphy of the deep-sea cores from the areas under different water masses in the northwestern Pacific; Jouse (1969, 1971a), on the three types of diatom variation — quantitative, ecological, and Phylogenetic — observed in some cores, including a long core, V20-119, from north of 40°N in the North Pacific; Muchina (1969, 1971), on the diatom stratigraphy in many deep-sea cores, including two cores from the equatorial parts of the Pacific which penetrated Pliocene sediments. The geographical distribution of diatoms in modern deep-sea sediments of the North Pacific was also studied by Kanaya (1961) and Kanaya and Koizumi (1966). Kanaya and Koizumi (1966) defined a statistic, Td (diatom temperature) values, in the long core V20-130 from the North Pacific and discussed the fact that the structures of the diatom assemblages change from the upper part to the lowermost part in the core. Koizumi (1970a, b) reported the fluctuations of surface water temperatures during the late Quaternary in the Yamato Basin of the Sea of Japan and the Shikoku Basin of the Philippine Sea, as shown by diatoms in several deep-sea cores. Donahue (1970) defined diatom biostratigraphic zones in the late PliocenePleistocene by using paleomagnetic stratigraphy as a time scale and discussed climatic changes by the use of the Td values in deep-sea cores from the northern North Pacific. With reference to the diatom stratigraphy in the equatorial Pacific, Burckle (1972) compared the occurrence of selected Plio-Pleistocene diatoms with the paleomagnetic and other microfossil stratigraphy (Hays et al., 1969) and later defined a late Miocene to Recent diatom zonation for eastern equatorial Pacific sediments. Kanaya (1971) studied the diatom assemblages of the experimental Mohole sequence from the subtropical Pacific and correlated the sequence with the Swedish deep-sea core 76.