(Table 1) Age determination of basalts from DSDP Hole 30-289

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The Pacific plate has undergone a substantial northward displacement during the late Mesozoic and the Cainozoic. Here we give additional documentation for such motion based on palaeomagnetic measurements of a sequence of sedimentary and basalt samples collected from middle Oligocene to Aptian sections of Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) site 289 (Andrews, 1975; 00° 29.92'S, 158° 30.69'E) drilled on the Ontong Java Plateau.

The sample was holocrystallinc with alteration confined to minor oxidation in the groundmass.

Supplement to: Hammond, S R; Kroenke, Loren W; Theyer, Fritz; Keeling, D L (1975): Late Cretaceous and Paleogene paleolatitudes of the Ontong Java Plateau. Nature, 255(5503), 46-47

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770336
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1038/255046a0
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.770336
Provenance
Creator Hammond, S R; Kroenke, Loren W; Theyer, Fritz; Keeling, D L
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1975
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 25 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (158.512 LON, -0.499 LAT); South Pacific/PLATEAU