Physical properties of calcareous ooze: Control by dissolution at depth |
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| Authors: | Thomas C Johnson Edwin L Hamilton Wolfgang H Berger |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455 U.S.A.;2. Naval Undersea Center, San Diego, Calif. 92132 U.S.A.;3. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. 92093 U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Eighteen box cores of pelagic calcareous ooze from the Ontong Java Plateau in the western equatorial Pacific were subsampled and analyzed for the following physical properties: grain size, porosity, saturated density, mean grain density, compressional sound velocity and shear strength. In addition, weight percent CaCO3 was determined, and micropaleontological analyses of the Foraminifera were performed to determine preservation and sedimentation rates. Mean grain size of the sediments decreases at deeper depositional sites, primarily because of dissolution and fragmentation of calcareous microfossils. This, in turn, results in the sediments in deeper water having lower sound velocities and less shear strength. The physical properties of calcareous ooze are not significantly affected by any reprecipitation or incipient cementation of calcite that may occur soon after deposition. |
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