Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
Volume 392
Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate
Expedition 392 of the R/V JOIDES Resolution
from and to Cape Town, South Africa
Sites U1579–U1582
5 February–7 April 2022
Volume authorship
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists
Published by
International Ocean Discovery Program
Publisher’s notes
This publication was prepared by the JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) as an account of work performed under the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). This material is based upon work supported by the JRSO, which is a major facility funded by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement Number OCE1326927. Funding for IODP is provided by the following international partners:
- National Science Foundation (NSF), United States
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
- European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), People’s Republic of China
- Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC)
- Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India
The JRSO is supported by the NSF. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF, the participating agencies, TAMU, or Texas A&M Research Foundation.
The bulk of the shipboard-collected core data from this expedition is accessible at https://zenodo.org/
A complete set of the logging data collected during the expedition is available at http://mlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Supplemental data were provided by the authors and may not conform to IODP publication formats.
JRSO expedition photos are the property of IODP and are public access.
Some core photographs have been tonally enhanced to better illustrate particular features of interest. High-resolution images are available upon request.
Cover photograph shows a compilation of core section images showing a representative range of sediments and igneous rocks recovered during IODP Expedition 392. Photo credit: IODP JRSO.
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https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.2023
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Contents
Expedition reports
Chapters
PDF
Figures
Cited byCore descriptions
Visual core descriptions (VCDs) are presented in PDF files for each site.
Thin sections and/or smear slides for each site or hole are presented in CSV or PDF format in the CORES directory and in Excel format in DESC_WKB in Supplementary material. The entire set of core images in PDF is available in the IMAGES directory.
Site U1579: Visual core descriptions · Smear slides · Thin sections
Site U1580: Visual core descriptions · Smear slides · Thin sections
Site U1581: Visual core descriptions · Smear slides
Site U1582: Visual core descriptions · Smear slides · Thin sections
Supplementary material
Supplementary material for the Volume 392 expedition reports includes DESClogik workbooks, value lists, and seawater sampling data in Microsoft Excel format and handwritten descriptions in PDF format. A full list of directories can be found in SUPP_MAT in the volume zip folder or on the Supplementary material for Volume 392 expedition reports web page.
Expedition research results
Data reports
Drilling location maps
A site map showing the drilling locations for this expedition and maps showing the drilling locations of all International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) expeditions, produced using QGIS (http://www.qgis.org), and all Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) expeditions, produced using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) of Paul Wessel and Walter H.F. Smith (https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org), are available in PDF.
- IODP Expedition 392 site map
- IODP map
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program map (Expeditions 301–348)
- ODP map (Legs 100–210)
- DSDP map (Legs 1–96)
Foreword
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) represents the latest incarnation of almost five decades of scientific ocean drilling excellence and is generally accepted as the most successful international collaboration in the history of the Earth sciences. IODP builds seamlessly on the accomplishments of previous phases: the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Ocean Drilling Program, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The 2013–2023 IODP Science Plan (Illuminating Earth’s Past, Present, and Future) defines four themes and thirteen challenges for this decade of scientific ocean drilling that are both of fundamental importance in understanding how the Earth works and of significant relevance to society as the Earth changes, at least in part in response to anthropogenic forcing. This phase of IODP represents an intense level of international collaboration in bringing diverse drilling platforms and strategies to increasing our understanding of climate and ocean change, the deep biosphere and evolution of ecosystems, connections between Earth’s deep processes and surface manifestations, and geologically induced hazards on human timeframes.
The Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program presents the scientific and engineering results of IODP drilling projects, expedition by expedition. As in the preceding Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, expeditions in the current IODP phase are conducted by three implementing organizations, each providing a different drilling capability. These are the US Implementing Organization (USIO; through September 2014) and the JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO; as of October 2014), providing the leased commercial vessel JOIDES Resolution for riserless drilling operations; JAMSTEC’s Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (MarE3), providing the drillship Chikyu for riser and occasional riserless operations; and the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) Science Operator (ESO), providing “mission-specific” platforms (MSPs) for expeditions that extend the IODP operational range where neither drillship is suitable, for example, in polar environments and in shallow waters. Scheduling decisions for each capability are made by three independent Facility Boards, each of which includes scientists, operators, and platform funding partners: the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board (JRFB), Chikyu IODP Board (CIB), and ECORD Facility Board (EFB). At the beginning of the current IODP, the three Facility Boards agreed to utilize Publication Services at the USIO and now the JRSO for production of all expedition Proceedings volumes and reports.
The current IODP differs from prior scientific ocean drilling programs in that it has neither a central management organization nor commingled funding for program-wide activities. Yet this phase of IODP retains a fundamental integrative structural element: a “bottom-up” evaluation of all proposals for drilling expeditions by a single advisory structure composed of scientists representing all international program partners. International scientists may submit drilling proposals to the Science Support Office; all submitted proposals are then evaluated by a Science Evaluation Panel in the context of the Science Plan.
The current IODP also has an international integrative level for high-level discussion and global consensus-building: the IODP Forum. The Forum is not only charged with assessing program-wide progress toward achieving the current Science Plan, but also with overseeing approaches toward a new bright future of scientific ocean drilling post 2023. At present, IODP involves 22 international funding agencies, including those from the United States, Japan, an Australia/New Zealand consortium (ANZIC), China, India, South Korea, and the fifteen members of ECORD (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom). The IODP membership represents an unparalleled level of international scientific collaboration; one of the greatest, and ongoing strengths of scientific ocean drilling.
Henk Brinkhuis
Chair, IODP Forum
Reviewers for this volume
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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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Expedition 392 participants*
Expedition 392 scientists
Department of Geosciences, Geophysics Section Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research
gabriele.uenzelmann-neben@awi.de
steve.bohaty@geow.uni-heidelberg.de
Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist
International Ocean Discovery Program
Micropaleontologist (nannofossils)
odysseas.archontikis@univ.ox.ac.uk
Physical Properties Specialist/Stratigraphic Correlator
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Micropaleontologist (foraminifers)
Boone Pickens School of Geology
Geology and Environmental Geosciences
Present affiliation:
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Indiana University, Bloomington
Igneous Petrologist/Inorganic Geochemist
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Research School of Earth Sciences, Environmental Geoscience and Oceanography
The Australian National University
Micropaleontologist (nannofossils)
jens.herrle@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Yuji Ichiyama†
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Physical Properties Specialist/Downhole Measurements
National Museum of Natural History
Present affiliation:
Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
Chie Kato†
Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies
Micropaleontologist (nannofossils)
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
denise.kulhanek@ifg.uni-kiel.de
Juan Li†
Physical Properties Specialist
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Jia Liu†
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Physical Properties Specialist/Downhole Measurements
Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics
Department of Geological Sciences
Lyell Centre for Marine and Earth Science and Technology
Physical Properties Specialist/Stratigraphic Correlator
MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Outreach
Observer
Geophysics and Remote Sensing Unit, Council for Geoscience
Also at
African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience
*Affiliations at time of expedition, except where updated by participants.
†Shore-based participant.
Operational and technical staff
Siem Offshore AS officials
JRSO shipboard personnel and technical representatives
Marine Instrumentation Specialist
Marine Instrumentation Specialist
Logging Engineer (Schlumberger Offshore Services
IODP Publication Services staff*
Anthony Eason
Graphics Specialist II
Manager of Publication Services
Expedition-related bibliography*
IODP publications
Scientific Prospectus
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., and Kulhanek, D.K., 2020. Expedition 392 Scientific Prospectus: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.392.2020
Preliminary Report
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2022. Expedition 392 Preliminary Report: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.392.2022
Proceedings volume
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2023. Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.2023
Expedition reports
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Expedition 392 summary. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.101.2023
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Expedition 392 methods. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.102.2023
Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Site U1579. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.103.2023
Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Site U1580. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.104.2023
Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Site U1581. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.105.2023
Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C., Wagner, T., and Westerhold, T., 2023. Site U1582. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392.106.2023
Supplementary material
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2023. Supplementary material, https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.392supp.2023. In Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 392: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
Expedition research results
Pending.
Journals/Books
Doiron, K.E., 2023. Molecular and isotope proxies of paleoclimate in Quaternary lacustrine sediments and Cretaceous marine archives and as tracers for catalytic methanogenesis in thermally immature shales [PhD dissertation]. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2898890088
Conferences
Brassell, S.C., Doiron, K.E., Bijl, P., Wagner, T., Herrle, J.O., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S., Childress, L.B., and the IODP Expedition 392 Science Party, 2023. Contributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) derived from angiosperms and wildfires in Campanian to Paleocene sediments from high southern latitudes. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Davidson, P., Koppers, A.P., and the Expedition 392 Scientists 2023. Preliminary 40Ar/39Ar results from IODP Exp. 392: basement ages from the Agulhas Plateau. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Doiron, K., Brassell, S., Bijl, P., Wager, T., Herrle, J., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S., Childress, L., and the Expedition 392 Science Party, 2023. Alkenones confirmed in sediments from high southern latitudes during the Cretaceous and Paleocene: results from the Transkei Basin (IODP Site U1581). Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 April 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10010
Doiron, K.E., Brassell, S.C., Bijl, P., Wagner, T., Herrle, J.O., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S., Childress, L.B., and the IODP Expedition 392 Science Party, 2023. Evolutionary developments in alkenones from the Campanian to Paleocene recorded in sediments from the Transkei Basin (IODP Site U1581). Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Geldmacher, J., Liu, J., Ichiyama, Y., Davidson, P., and the Scientific Team of IODP Expedition 392 2023. The origin of the Agulhas Plateau at the African-Southern Ocean Gateway (IODP Exp. 392): first results from igneous rock geochemistry. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Gürer, D., Dallanave, E., Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Sprain, C.J., Hu, P., Roberts, A.P., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2023. Age of emplacement and paleolatitude of the Agulhas Plateau – IODP Expedition 392, Site U1582. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Jana, D., Torres, M., Thirumalai, K., Evans, K., Burkett, A., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S., Childress, L., and the Expedition 392 Science Party, 2023. Using X-ray micro CT scanning to assess preservation of foraminifera across multiple sites in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 55(6):105-24. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2023AM-392818
Sprain, C.J., Dallanave, E., Gürer, D., Kato, C., Tessin, A.C., Bohaty, S., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Washburn, S., Gaarder, G., and the IODP Expedition 392 Science Party, 2023. Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analysis of sediments and lavas obtained on IODP Expedition 392 Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
Tessin, A., McManus, J., Penman, D., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Burkett, A.M., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2023. Seafloor weathering of Agulhas Plateau Large Igneous Province volcaniclastics as a driver of ocean chemistry. Presented at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11–15 December 2023.
*The Expedition-related bibliography is continually updated online. Please send updates to PubCrd@iodp.tamu.edu.
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