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Stable oxygen isotope record of the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the southern North Sea Basin: positioning the Oi-1 event

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

E. De Man ,
L. Ivany  and
N. Vandenberghe
E. De Man*
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
L. Ivany
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
N. Vandenberghe
Affiliation:
Historical Geology K.U. Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
*
1Ellen.DeMan@naturalsciences.be(corresponding author)
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Preliminary stable oxygen isotope data are presented from the southern North Sea Basin successions, ranging from the Lutetian to Rupelian. Analyses were performed on fish otoliths, nuculid bivalves and benthic foraminifera and are presented as bulk δ18O values relative to a well established regional sequence stratigraphic framework. The most significant positive shift in δ18O values clearly falls at the top of the regionally recognised Bassevelde 3 sequence, which base corresponds to the Eocene-Oligocene GSSP boundary. The here documented δ18O shift is closely associated with the base of the traditional Rupelian unit-stratotype and is tentatively correlated to the globally recognised Oi-1 event.

Keywords

Eocene-Oligocene boundarystable isotopesOi-1 eventsequence stratigraphy
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 193 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2004

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