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The uppermost seismic unit of the Ioffe Drift partially recovered by five sediment cores is mainly composed of alternating foraminiferal and nanno-foraminiferal high-calcareous oozes with a minor contribution of foram-nannofossil and nannofossil oozes. The major characteristics and possible diagnostic criteria of the Ioffe Drift calcareous contourites were studied on the basis of a detailed investigation of grain-size distribution, color reflectance, magnetic susceptibility and the chemical and mineral composition of the drift sediments. The analysis of this large dataset revealed the main sources of the biogenic sedimentary material and the mechanisms of the material’s transport and deposition. The variability patterns of the studied parameters suggest erosion-depositional changes in bottom-current activity. The end-member modeling revealed unusually high contribution of EM2 mainly controlled by the sortable silt (SS) content. Most cores show significant correlation between SS content in fractions <63 µm and mean SS particle size thus confirming the influence of bottom-currents on the sedimentation. Finding of authigenic Mn-oxide minerals in sediments supports the oxic environment of sedimentation and early diagenesis.
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Murdmaa, I., Borisov, D., Dorokhova, E., Dara, O. (2021). Lithology. In: Murdmaa, I., Ivanova, E. (eds) The Ioffe Drift. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82871-4_6
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