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During Leg 41 Neogene sediments were recovered from five sites off northwest Africa. On the Sierra Leone Rise (Site 366), Neogene sediments consist of nanno oozes, nanno chalk, and calcareous clays 230 meters thick, resting conformably on the late Oligocene sediments. The common succession of zones occurs with two hiatuses. The lower gap corresponds to an interval around the lower/middle Miocene boundary (the Praeorbulina glomerosa and Orbulina suturalis-Globorotalia peripheroronda zones are absent) and the upper gap coincides with an interval around the middle/upper Miocene boundary (the Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens-Globigerina druryi, Globigerina nepenthesGloborotalia siakensis and Globorotalia continuosa zones are missing). In the Cape Verde Basin (Site 367) deep-water Neogene turbidites (about 200-250 m thick) contain poor fauna of redeposited and sorted Cretaceous, Eocene, Oligocene, and Neogene species. On the Cape Verde Rise (Site 368) the Neogene section starts with slightly calcareous and noncalcareous clays with poor planktonic foraminifers of the lower Miocene. Later on this area was uplifted and clayey sediments have been replaced upsection in order by more shallow-water clayey nanno and nannoforaminifer oozes and marls and pure calcareous oozes. In the middle Miocene, planktonic foraminifers are still not diverse, but since the level of the Globigerina nepenthes-Globorotalia siakensis Zone, almost all Neogene zones have been traced. The minimum thickness of the Neogene sediments is about 230 meters. On the continental slope off Spanish Sahara (Site 369) monotonous calcareous pelagic sediments of Neogene age (164 m thick) overlie the late Oligocene comformably, or with a small time gap. A set of zones beginning from the Globigerinoides primordisGloborotalia kugleri Zone up to the Globorotalia fohsi fohsi Zone has been revealed with a gap corresponding to the Globigerinita stainforthi and the Globigerinatella insueta-Globigerinoides trilobus zones. Above that follow sediments with heterogeneous microfauna which result from redeposition or mixing of sediments during drilling. The section ends with sediments of the late Miocene and lower Pliocene with abundant planktonic foraminifers. The latter are unconformably overlain by the Quaternary ooze. In the Morocco basin (Site 370) deep-water marls and calcareous clays of the lower Miocene contain poor assemblages of planktonic foraminifers. The middle and upper Miocene are represented by turbidites (alternation of nanno oozes, clays, siltstones, and sands) with heterogeneous microfauna. Total thickness of Neogene is up to 200 meters. In general the Neogene foraminifer microfauna of the area studied includes the majority of species which developed within the tropical-subtropical belt. The entire succession of the Miocene and Pliocene foraminifer zones occurs. The only exclusion is the Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens-Globigerina druryi Zone of the middle Miocene. The distribution of species is shown on three tables. Comments are given for 47 species and subspecies of foraminifers (stratigraphic ranges, peculiarities of morphology, and ultrastructure of the shell wall).

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Zonal Stratigraphy of Neogene Deposits of the Eastern Part of the Atlantic Ocean by Means of Planktonic Foraminifers, Leg 41, Deep Sea Drilling Project