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Eocene-Oligocene sea-level changes on the New Jersey coastal plain linked to the deep-sea record
We use magnetostratigraphy and Sr-isotope stratigraphy to improve stratigraphic control for the Eocene to Oligocene of the New Jersey coastal plain (ACGS4 borehole). Magnetostratigraphy in many cases is complicated in outcrop sections of shallow-water (<200 m paleodepth) sediments by low remanence and weathering; we minimize these problems by analyzing large samples obtained from the ACGS4 borehole and construct a firm magnetochronology for the early to middle Eocene. Sr-isotope stratigraphy confirms biostratigraphic evidence for a previously unknown uppermost Eocene to lowermost Oligocene unit and delineates a "middle" Oligocene hiatus that is unresolvabie using biostratigraphy alone. We recognize hiatuses and associated unconformities on the New Jersey margin near the lower Eocene/middle Eocene boundary, within the middle Eocene, and in the "middle" Oligocene and correlate these events with similar hiatuses observed in other continental-shelf, slope, and epicontinental settings. In addition, a hiatus probably occurred near the middle Eocene/upper Eocene boundary. We conclude that the interregional distribution of these Eocene-Oligocene hiatuses indicates a global cause: eustatic change.
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- Geological Society of America Bulletin
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- https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1990)102%3c0331:EOSLCO%3e2.3.CO;2
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Biology and Paleo Environment
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- January 18, 2012