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Science 26 April 1974:
Vol. 184. no. 4135, pp. 462 - 464
DOI: 10.1126/science.184.4135.462
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Cretaceous Drowning of Reefs on Mid-Pacific and Japanese Guyots

J. L. Matthews 1, B. C. Heezen 2, R. Catalano 3, A. Coogan 4, M. Tharp 5, J. Natland 6, and M. Rawson 5

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037
2 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
3 Istituto di Geologia, Universite di Palermo, Corso Tukory 131, Italia
4 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240
5 Columbia University, New York 10027
6 Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Reefs dredged on guyots of the Mid-Pacific Mountains and the Japanese Seamounts yield middle Cretaceous fossils, indicating that submergence killed off the fauna of the reefs sometime during the Albian-Cenomanian. Eustatic rise of sea level is probably responsible.


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