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Experience of Deep-Sea Drilling in the World Ocean: Methodical and Practical Significance for Stratigraphic Studies

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The results of stratigraphic studies carried out in the process of international deep-sea drilling in the last fifty years are presented. They make a great contribution to development and improvement of the methods for detailed stratigraphic studies and dating of marine sedimentary sequences as well as reconstructions of past oceanological and climatic events. The results obtained are of great methodological importance for stratigraphic investigations of the whole Phanerozoic. The distinguished Cenozoic biostratigraphic zones can really be traced across the whole tropical and subtropical area. The study data on planktonic microorganism (calcareous and siliceous) assemblages which were an integral part of Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine ecosystems made a considerable contribution to these works. These assemblages developed over time against the background of variable oceanic circulation and sedimentation conditions, changes in deep and surface water productivity, water temperature, etc. In general, the evolution trend of biotic communities reflects the development and reorganization stages of the past ecosystems. All these data make it possible to reveal the real sequence of not only biotic but also abiotic events (climatic, oceanographic, and eustatic) in the World Ocean for the last 70–75 million years.

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Gladenkov, A.Y., Gladenkov, Y.B. Experience of Deep-Sea Drilling in the World Ocean: Methodical and Practical Significance for Stratigraphic Studies. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 29, 548–571 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593821050026

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