(Table 1) Black shale characteristics at DSDP Hole 75-530A

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The middle Cretaceous black shale interval at Site 530 is 170 m thick and late Albian to Coniacian in age. The organic-carbon-rich sediments occur as 260 separate beds (average 4 cm, maximum 60 cm thick) and make up less than 10% of the recovered section. Associated lithologies are greenish, grayish, and reddish mudstones, marlstones, and rare limestones. Organic-carbon contents of the black shales average about 5% (maximum 16%), and of the interbedded sediments, less than 0.5%. Careful study of the sedimentary and biogenic structures and composition and review of paleoceanographic conditions in the Angola Basin indicate that a complex interplay of processes controlled black shale accumulation. Relatively low oxygen concentrations in sediment and bottom waters occurred periodically, and conditions locally may have been anoxic or near anoxic both in the basin and on the continental margin. Pelagic, hemipelagic, and turbiditic depositional processes all operated to varying degrees at different times.

Supplement to: Stow, Dorrik A V; Dean, Walter E (1984): Middle Cretaceous black shales at Site 530 in the southeastern Angola Basin. In: Hay, WW; Sibuet, J-C; et al. (eds.), Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 75, 809-817

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810102
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.75.120.1984
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Creator Stow, Dorrik A V; Dean, Walter E
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1984
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 191 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (9.386 LON, -19.188 LAT); South Atlantic/RIDGE