doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.310.2006

Tahiti Sea Level

The last deglacial sea level rise in the South Pacific: offshore drilling in Tahiti (French Polynesia)

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Table of Contents

• TITLE PAGE
• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
• EXPEDITION 310 PARTICIPANTS
  • Expedition 310 Scientists
  • Operational and Technical Staff
• ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
  • Sea-level changes as a global climate indicator
  • Climatic and oceanographic changes during last deglaciation events
• SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
• OPERATIONAL STRATEGY
• SITE RESULTS
  • Sedimentology and Biological Assemblages
  • Physical Properties
  • Downhole Logging
  • Microbiology
  • Geochemistry
• PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT
• OPERATIONS
  • Mobilization of the Hunter
  • Transit to Papeete, Tahiti, with Brief Port Call in Panama
  • Port Call in Papeete, Tahiti
  • Transit to Site M0005, Maraa
  • Site M0005
  • Site M0006
  • Site M0007
  • Transit from Site M0007 (Maraa) to Site M0008 (Tiarei)
  • Site M0008
  • Site M0009
  • Site M0010
  • Site M0011
  • Site M0012
  • Site M0013
  • Site M0014
  • Transit from Site M0014 (Tiarei) to Site M0007 (Maraa)
  • Site M0007
  • Site M0015
  • Site M0016
  • Site M0006 (Survey)
  • Site M0015
  • Site M0017
  • Site M0018
  • Transit from Site M0018 (Maraa) to Site M0019 (Faaa)
  • Site M0019
  • Site M0020
  • Transit from Site M0020 (Faaa area) to Site M0021 (Tiarei area)
  • Site M0021
  • Site M0009
  • Site M0022
  • Site M0023
  • Site M0024
  • Site M0025
  • Site M0026
  • Site M0025
  • Site M0021
  • Transit to Port of Papeete
  • Onshore Science Party, Bremen
• REFERENCES
• TABLES
  • Table T1. Expedition 310 coring summary.
  • Table T2. Location of description and measurements made during Expedition 310.
  • Table T3. Major and trace elements analyses of representative volcaniclastic sediments.
• FIGURES
  • Figure F1. Sea-level history.
  • Figure F2. Sites around Tahiti.
  • Figure F3. Holes in the Faaa area.
  • Figure F4. Holes in the Tiarei area.
  • Figure F5. Holes in the Maraa area.
  • Figure F6. Maraa western transect lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F7. Maraa eastern transect lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F8. Tiarei inner ridge lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F9. Tiarei outer ridge lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F10. Tiarei margin lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F11. Faaa lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F12. Porosity and P-wave velocity data.
  • Figure F13. Downhole data for Tiarei area.
  • Figure F14. Downhole data for Tiarei area.
  • Figure F15. Downhole data for Maraa area.
  • Figure F16. Brown Fe/Mn crust and cavity.
  • Figure F17. Blue/purple biofilm.
  • Figure F18. Cells in biofilm.
  • Figure F19. Microbialite surface with fibers.
  • Figure F20. Blue biofilm surface.
  • Figure F21. Microbialites surface.
  • Figure F22. Aerobbic cultures.
  • Figure F23. Cell morphologies.
  • Figure F24. Dissolved chemistry, Hole M0008A.
  • Figure F25. Solid-phase silica, potassium, and rubidium.
  • Figure F26. Solid-phase calcium, iron, and silica.
  • Figure F27. Solid-phase oxide relationships.

Publication date: 26 May 2006

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