Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Expedition 307 Preliminary Report

Modern Carbonate Mounds: Porcupine Drilling

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• COVER PAGE
• PUBLISHER'S NOTES
• PARTICIPANTS
  • Expedition Scientists
  • Observers
  • Transocean Officials
  • IODP Shipboard Personnel and Technical Representatives
• ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• BACKGROUND
  • Overview of Porcupine Seabight Mounds
  • Geological Setting
  • Seismic Studies/Site Survey Data
• SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
  • External versus Internal Controls
  • Mounds and Drifts
  • Hypotheses Tested
• SITE SUMMARIES
  • Site U1316
  • Site U1317
  • Site U1318
• PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
• PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT
• OPERATIONS
  • Transit to Site U1316
  • Site U1316
  • Site U1317
  • Site U1318
  • Transit to Dublin
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• REFERENCES
• TABLE
  • Table T1. Coring summary.
• FIGURES
  • Figure F1. Porcupine Seabight location.
  • Figure F2. Porcupine Basin stratigraphy.
  • Figure F3. Challenger Mound seismic profiles.
  • Figure F4. Challenger Mound transect seismic profiles.
  • Figure F5. Porcupine Seabight site locations.
  • Figure F6. Paleomagnetic inclination results.
  • Figure F7. Prokaryote depth profiles.
  • Figure F8. Lithostratigraphic site correlation.
  • Figure F9. Site lithostratigraphy.
  • Figure F10. Spatial correlation of multisensor track data, Site U1317.
  • Figure F11. Mound-base comparison, Sites U1316 and U1317.
  • Figure F12. Wireline logging results, Hole U1317D.
  • Figure F13. Geochemical profiles, Holes U1317A and U1317D.