• The upper 5.7 m of this site (cores TDP27/1–4) show grayish

•orange, weathered limestones, with macrofossil fragments (e.g.,

•bivalves and corals) that become more abundant down core

•(Figs. 2 and 3a). Cores TDP27/5–6 (from 8 to 10 m) yield brecciated

•limestones, with angular clasts (up to 10 cm across) and occasional

•carbonaceous smears in a dark orange, lithified, sandy matrix. A

•0.8-cm-thick, soft, olive gray claystone layer (Figs. 2 and 3b)

•overlies 2.8-cm-thick, gray, calcareous sandstone beds (from 10.8

•to 13.6 m) that include fossiliferous (e.g., gastropods and corals)

•limestone clasts (cores TDP27/7–9) (Figs. 2 and 3c). Claystone

•interbeds occur within this interval. From 14 m to the bottom of

•the hole (cores TDP27/10–14), the dominant lithologies are olive

•gray, bioturbated, sandy limestones (Figs. 2 and 3d) that showdispersed shell debris and become finer-grained and more clayrich

•towards the bottom.

•Highly bioclastic packstone–grainstone fabrics are visible in

•thin-sections of cores TDP27/1 and 6. The bioclasts correspond to

•coralline encrusting red algae, dasyclad green algae, recrystallised

•corals, Paleocene peyssonellid encrusting algae, and benthic and

•planktonic foraminifera (Fig. 3e), together with quartz grains. The

•presence of dasyclad green algae suggests a depositional setting

•of <30 m water depth. Thin-sections of cores TDP27/11, 13 and

•14 show wackestone–packstone textures and a lower percentage

•of bioclasts, which mainly consist of benthic and planktonic foraminifera

•(Fig. 3f) and sporadic occurrences of ostracods and red algae.

•This assemblage may indicate a slightly deeper depositional

•setting.