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David Bukry

Publications and source records attributed to David Bukry.

At least 37 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
USGS2001

Sequence stratigraphy of a South Florida carbonate ramp and bounding siliciclastics (late Miocene-Pliocene)

In southern peninsular Florida, a late-early to early-late Pliocene carbonate ramp (Ochopee Limestone Member of the Tamiami Formation) is sandwiched between underlying marine siliciclastics of the late Miocene to early Pliocene Peace River Formation and an overlying late Pliocene unnamed sand. At least three depositional sequences (DS1, DS2, and DS3), of which two contain condensed sections, are recognized in the Peace River Formation; an additional depositional sequence (DS4) is proposed to include the Ochopee Limestone. Established chronologies and new biostratigraphic results indicate that the Tortonian and Zanclean ages bracket the Peace River Formation. Depositional sequence 1 (DS1) prograded across the present-day peninsular portion of the Florida Platform during the Tortonian age and laps out near the southern margin of the peninsula. During the latest Tortonian and Messinian ages, progradation of DS2 overstepped the southern lap out of DS1 and extended at least as far as the Florida Keys. Deposition of DS2 ended, at the latest, near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Siliciclastic supply was reduced during early Pliocene deposition of DS3, which is absent in southernmost peninsular Florida. This reduction in supply of siliciclastics was followed by aggradational accumulation of heterozoan temperate carbonate sediments on a widespread carbonate ramp that includes the Ochopee Limestone. The Ochopee Limestone was deposited during eustatic cycle TB3.6 and ended in the late Pliocene with basinward lap out near the southern margin of the Florida peninsula. The Ochopee Limestone ramp was buried with a late Pliocene resumption of southward influx of siliciclastics (unnamed sand and Long Key Formation) that extended south beyond the middle and upper Florida Keys.

Florida↗
USGS1995

Uppermost Campanian–Maestrichtian strontium isotopic, biostratigraphic, and sequence stratigraphic framework of the New Jersey Coastal Plain

Firm stratigraphic correlations are needed to evaluate the global significance of unconformity bounded units (sequences). We correlate the well-developed uppermost Campanian and Maestrichtian sequences of the New Jersey Coastal Plain to the geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS) by integrating Sr-isotopic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy. To do this, we developed a Maestrichtian (ca. 73–65 Ma) Sr-isotopic reference section at Deep Sea Drilling Project Hole 525A in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Maestrichtian strata can then be dated by measuring their 87 Sr/ 86 Sr composition, calibrating to the GPTS of S. C. Cande and D. V. Kent (1993, personal commun.), and using the equation Age (Ma) = 37 326.894–52 639.89 ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr). Sr-stratigraphic resolution for the Maestrichtian is estimated as ±1.2 to ±2 m.y. At least two unconformity-bounded units comprise the uppermost Campanian to Maestrichtian strata in New Jersey. The lower one, the Marshalltown sequence, is assigned to calcareous nannofossil Zones CC20/21 (∼NC19) and CC22b (∼NC20). It ranges in age from ∼74.1 to 69.9 Ma based on Sr-isotope age estimates. The overlying Navesink sequence is assigned to calcareous nannoplankton Zones CC25–26 (∼NC21–23); it ranges in age from 69.3 to 65 Ma based on Sr-isotope age estimates. The upper part of this sequence, the Tinton Formation, has no calcareous planktonic control; Sr-isotopes provide an age estimate of 66 ± 1.2 Ma (latest Maestrichtian). Sequence boundaries at the base and the top of the Marshalltown sequence match boundaries elsewhere in the Atlantic Coastal Plain (Owens and Gohn, 1985) and the inferred global sea-level record of Haq et al. (1987); they support eustatic changes as the mechanism controlling depositional history of this sequence. However, the latest Maestrichtian record in New Jersey does not agree with Haq et al. (1987); we attribute this to correlation and time-scale differences near the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. High sedimentation rates in the latest Maestrichtian of New Jersey (Shrewsbury Member of the Red Bank Formation and the Tinton Formation) suggest tectonic uplift and/or rapid progradation during deposition of the highstand systems tract.

GSA Bulletin↗
USGS1993

Reappraisal of three calcareous nannofossil species: Coccolithus crassus, Toweius magnicrassus, and Toweius callosus

Type material of calcareous nannofossil index species Coccolithus crassus and two geographically widespread species Toweius magnicrassus and T. callosus have been studied by both light and SEM microscopy and morphometric measurements were made. Coccolithus crassus resembles Coccolithus pelagicus but has a raised cycle of elements around the centre of the distal shield. It probably evolved from C. pelagicus. Both T. magnicrassus and T. callosus have three cycles of elements in distal view, which is a characteristic of Toweius. Toweius magnicrassus is larger than T. callosus. Differentiation of T. magnicrassus from T. callosus is possible and useful because there is generally a size gap between them in a given sample and they have different stratigraphic ranges. However, both T. callosus and T. magnicrassus appear to increase in size from high to low latitudes. Toweius callosus most probably evolved from Toweius pertusus in the latest Palaeocene and gave rise to T. magnicrassus in the early Eocene.

Journal of Micropalaeontology↗
USGS1989

Late cretaceous pelagic sediments, volcanic ASH and biotas from near the Louisville hotspot, Pacific Plate, paleolatitude ∼42°S

Dredging on the deep inner slope of the Tonga Trench, immediately north of the intersection between the Louisville Ridge hotspot chain and the trench, recovered some Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) slightly tuffaceous pelagic sediments. They are inferred to have been scraped off a recently subducted Late Cretaceous guyot of the Louisville chain. In the vicinity of the Louisville hotspot (present location 50°26′S, 139°09′W; Late Cretaceous location ∼42°S, longitude unknown) Late Cretaceous rich diatom, radiolarian, silicoflagellate, foraminiferal and coccolith biotas, accumulated on the flanks of the guyot and are described in this paper. Rich sponge faunas are not described. ? Inoceramus prisms are present. Volcanic ash is of within-plate alkalic character. Isotope ratios in bulk carbonate δ 18 O − 2.63 to + 0.85, δ 13 C + 2.98 to 3.83) are normal for Pacific Maestrichtian sediments. The local CCD may have been shallower than the regional CCD, because of high organic productivity. In some samples Late Cretaceous materials have been mixed with Neogene materials. Mixing may have taken place on the flanks of the guyot during transit across the western Pacific, or on the trench slope during or after subduction and offscraping about 0.5 Ma.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology↗
USGS1987

North Atlantic Quaternary silicoflagellates, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 94

Quaternary silicoflagellates from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Mid-Atlantic Leg 94 are generally sparse and dissolution-thinned. Mesocena quadrangula, a low-latitude biostratigraphic guide species, occurs at all four sites studied (606, 607, 609, and 611), allowing identification of low-latitude zones—Dictyocha aculeata Zone, Mesocena quadrangula Zone, and Dictyocha stapedia stapedia Zone. A lack of cool-water Distephanus speculum speculum reflects warm relative paleotemperature values (Ts 74 to 98) for Leg 94. Comparison with assemblages at coastal DSDP Hole 397, off Africa, shows that Hole 397 has more abundant D. speculum speculum, suggesting that upwelling nutrient supply may significantly affect the total numbers of this species. The siliceous record of Leg 94 is sporadic, with several levels of nonpreservation that make paleotemperature trends difficult to establish by silicoflagellates. The northern range of M. quadrangula is extended to 52°50'N at Hole 611C. Opal phytoliths occur at southern Holes 606 and 607. These grasslands-produced nannofossils, representing eolian sedimentation from northwestern Africa, were likely distributed most widely during arid glacial intervals.

Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P.↗
USGS1987

Eocene siliceous and calcareous phytoplankton, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 95

Eocene siliceous and calcareous phytoplankton, with emphasis on silicoflagellates, were studied in 62 samples from DSDP Sites 612 and 613 on the continental slope and rise off New Jersey. The mid-latitude assemblages correlate well with assemblages from California, Peru, and offshore of southern Brazil, but are distinctly different from high-latitude cold-water assemblages of the Falkland Plateau off southern Argentina. Coccoliths and silicoflagellates provide evidence for the presence of a fairly complete middle and upper Eocene sequence, represented by a composite of Sites 612 and 613. A major unconformity occurs at the middle Eocene to upper Eocene contact at Site 612. The genus Bachmannocena Locker is emended and proposed as a replacement for genus Mesocena Ehrenberg for ring silicoflagellates. Six new silicoflagellates and one new diatom are described: Bachmannocena apiculata monolineata Bukry, n. subsp., Corbisema amicula Bukry, n. sp., C. bimucronata elegans Bukry, n. subsp., C. hastata incohata Bukry, n. subsp., C. jerseyensis Bukry, n. sp., Dictyocha acuta Bukry, n. sp., and Coscinodiscus eomonoculus Bukry, n. sp. Also, one new replacement name, B. paulschulzn Bukry, nom. nov., and 24 new combinations are proposed for genus Bachmannocena.

Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P.↗
USGS1986

Miocene silicoflagellates from Chatham Rise, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 594

Miocene silicoflagellates, dominated by Mesocena, are identified and correlated from Site 594 to other Deep Sea Drilling Project sites. Relative paleotemperature values from silicoflagellates at Site 594 are very low, supporting the evidence of the associated cold-water, low-diversity Coccolith assemblages. The greatest abundances of Mesocena diodon nodosa yet recorded occur at Site 594, which is near the present Subtropical Convergence. Similarities in the ecostratigraphic records between Chatham Rise (Site 594) and the Falkland Plateau (Site 329) in the late Miocene indicate widespread events within the circum-Antarctic water mass.

Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P.↗
USGS1985

Mid-Atlantic Ridge coccolith and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy, Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 558 and 563.

Low-latitude coccolith zonation can be used for biostratigraphy at Mid-Atlantic Ridge sites DSDP 558 (lat. 38°N) and DSDP 563 (lat. 34°N). The low-latitude zonal sequence from lower Oligocene to Holocene is interrupted by coolwater assemblages in upper middle Miocene and by hiatuses that removed the lower Pliocene and part of the upper Pliocene. A gap in the range of zonal guide fossil Discoaster druggii in the lower Miocene, also identified in other ocean basins, occurs at both DSDP 558 and 563. Coccoliths are abundant and moderately overgrown at both sites. Pentaliths occur in the Oligocene at DSDP 563 but are missing at DSDP 558, probably the result of diagenesis. New taxa of coccoliths identified include Cyclolithellai neoaprica Bukry, n. sp., and Sphenolithus calyculus Bukry, n. sp. Silicoflagellates are limited to the upper Quaternary at DSDP 558 with warm-water assemblages of the Dictyocha aculeata Zone and possibly the upper Mesocena quadrangula Zone, as indicated by the presence of Dictyocha lingii. A new silicoflagellate species, Distephanus floridus Bukry, n. sp., is described.

Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P.↗
USGS1985

Tropical Pacific silicoflagellate zonation and paleotemperature trends of the late Cenozoic

Quantitative study of late Cenozoic silicoflagellates at tropical Pacific DSDP Sites 572 and 575 shows that the greatest amplitude of fluctuation in relative paleotemperature values occurred in the late Miocene. The coolest minimum paleotemperature values (near 75 = 30) also occurred in the late Miocene. The warmest intervals (Ts = 80 to 100) occurred in the middle Miocene and late Pliocene to Quaternary. In detail, the silicoflagellate relative paleotemperature curve correlates fairly well with the eustatic sea-level curve and deep-sea hiatus sequence. The only upper Cenozoic low-latitude biostratigraphic units not identified are the Distephanus speculum haliomma Subzone and Naviculopsis quadrata Zone, owing to the absence of the nominative species, which probably had nontropical ecologic preference. Several Naviculopsis occurrence events within the Naviculopsis ponticula Zone correlate between DSDP Hole 575A and DSDP Hole 495 off Guatemala. Many local and regional biostratigraphic events are recognized. New taxa identified from DSDP Leg 85 include Dictyocha nola Bukry, n. sp., Distephanus stradneri var. grandis Bukry, n. var., Mesocena elliptica var. rhomboidea Bukry, n. van, and Naviculopsis obtusarca var. acicula Bukry, n. var.

Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P.↗
USGS1984

Paleogene paleoceanography of the Arctic Ocean is constrained by the middle or late Eocene age of USGS Core Fl-422: Evidence from silicoflagellates

Arctic Ocean Core Fl-422 has been of central importance in Arctic tectonics and paleoceanography because it provides the sole evidence for early Cenozoic marine conditions in the Arctic. The presence of several Eocene and Eocene or Oligocene guide species of silicoflagellates in samples from this core shows that it is no older than middle Eocene, and is not Paleocene as previously reported. There is no evidence of any Paleocene (54 to 65 Ma) siliceous microfossils from Core Fl-422. Paleoceanographic inferences conerning the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and the timing of silica deposition in the Arctic have been erroneous because of unsupported biostratigraphic correlations.

Geology↗
USGS1984

Correlation of the middle eocene Kellogg Shale of northern California

The Kellogg Shale of northern California has traditionally been considered to be late Eocene in age on the basis of benthic foraminifer, radiolarian, and diatom correlations. The 30-m-thick Kellogg section exposed west of Byron, California, however, contains middle Eocene planktonic foraminifers (Zone P12), coccoliths (Subzones CP13c and CP14a), silicoflagellates (Dictyocha hexacantha Zone), and diatoms. Quantitative studies of the silicoflagellates and diatoms show a general cooling trend through the section which is consistent with paleoclimatic trends for this part of the middle Eocene (ca. 42-45 Ma) from elsewhere in the world. Seven new silicoflagellate taxa (Corbisema angularis, C. exilis, C. hastata miranda, C. inermis ballantina, C. regina, Dictyocha byronalis, Naviculopsis americana) and one new coccolithophorid species (Helicosphaera neolophota) are described.

California↗