Open AccessForaminiferal zonation of a boring in Quaternary deposits of the northern North Sea
Author(s) -
Rolf W. Feyling-Hanssen
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1982-31-03
Subject(s) - stadial , geology , eemian , interglacial , paleontology , quaternary , arctic , sequence (biology) , sea level , glacial period , pleistocene , deep sea , oceanography , biology , genetics
The foraminiferal content of samples from a 122 m deep borehole in the Statfjord Field of the northern North Sea permitted a biostratigraphical subdivision of the sequence into 11 units. The paleoecology of these units is discussed. Most of them reflect High-Arctic ice age conditions, whereas two of them are of interstadial character. Distinctly ameliorated assemblages occur 20 m below sea floor. They correlate with late Statfjord Interglacial assemblages from a previously described boring and probably originate from the end of the Eemian. An attempt has been made to correlate the units of the present boring with published deep sea oxygen isotope stages.