Abstract
Cores from drill sites in the Indian Ocean have provided evidence of early Oligocene and early Eocene–Palaeocene hiatuses. That allows a determination of the depth of the carbonate compensation level during the Palaeocene. Possible reasons are given for the occurrence of the early Oligocene hiatus, which may be present at all depths and may well be a world wide phenomenon.
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Pimm, A., Sclater, J. Early Tertiary hiatuses in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. Nature 252, 362–365 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252362a0
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