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Correlation of Early Quaternary Events in the U.S. Gulf Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

C. Wylie Poag
C. Wylie Poag*
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Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Abstract

A reexamination of the sequences of planktonic foraminifers and calcareous nannoplankton in the Plio-Pleistocene sediments beneath the Louisiana continental shelf has been undertaken in order to modernize correlation schemes that were established 10–20 y.a. As a consequence, it can be shown that (1) a new correlation of marine micropaleontological and continental glacial events is necessary; (2) the Gulf Coast faunal events can be reliably correlated with those in the type Italian Pleistocene section and in the deep-sea cores; (3) it is becoming increasingly evident that it is invalid to correlate the Plio-Pleistocene boundary, as defined by paleontology, with a climatically defined boundary.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 447 - 469
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