dsdp42pt2 57 Summary of Results of Black Sea Drilling资料.pdf

57. SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF BLACK SEA DRILLING David A . Ross, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts INTRODUCTION acids, carbohydrates, and porphyrins . In addition, we hoped to observe the initiation of catagenesis, a process The Black Sea, which is one of the largest of the worlds which begins in the upper portion of the sediment column, marginal seas, is unique in several ways. It is a semi- a part that generally is not sampled in detail during oil well enclosed basin almost completely surrounded by large al- drilling. pine mountain ranges : the Pontic mountains to the south Three sites were drilled in the Black Sea (Figure 1). The and the Caucasus mountains to the east and north (Figure pertinent site data are given in Table 1. Because of the 1). Geophysical studies have shown that the Black Sea may relatively high amounts of organic matter in the Recent contain as much as 17 km of material, which is probably of sediments, and the possibility of high hydrocarbon and gas sedimentary origin, above a basaltic basement. It appears, content at depth, all three sites were continuously cored. therefore, that the area has been a sedimentary basin for a Many of the cores were gassy, to the degree that sediment considerable period of time—general estimates are for as was forcibly extruded from the core barrel when the core long as 200 million years, or back