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- Title
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic sea-level estimates: backstripping analysis of borehole data, onshore New Jersey.
- Authors
Van Sickel, William A.; Kominz, Michelle A.; Miller, Kenneth G.; Browning, James V.
- Abstract
Backstripping analysis of the Bass River and Ancora boreholes from the New Jersey coastal plain (Ocean Drilling Project Leg 174AX) provides new Late Cretaceous sea-level estimates and corroborates previously published Cenozoic sea-level estimates. Compaction histories of all coastal plain boreholes were updated using porosity–depth relationships estimated from New Jersey coastal plain electric logs. The new porosity estimates are considerably lower than those previously calculated at the offshore Cost B-2 well. Amplitudes and durations of sea-level variations are comparable in sequences that are represented at multiple boreholes, suggesting that the resultant curves are an approximation of regional sea level. Both the amplitudes and durations of third-order (0.5–5 Myr) cycles tend to decrease from the Late Cretaceous to the late Miocene. Third-order sea-level amplitudes in excess of 60 m are not observed. Long-term (108–107 years) sea level was approximately constant at 30–80 m in the Late Cretaceous, rose to a maximum early Eocene value of approximately 100–140 m, and then fell through the Eocene and Oligocene.
- Subjects
NEW Jersey; SEA level; ELECTRIC logging; ELECTRIC oil well logging; DRILLING platforms; CENOZOIC paleoceanography
- Publication
Basin Research, 2004, Vol 16, Issue 4, p451
- ISSN
0950-091X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2117.2004.00242.x