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Miocene Mediterranean Foraminiferal Abundance and Isotope Data

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Turco, E., F.J. Hilgen, L.J. Lourens, N.J. Shackleton, and W.J. Zachariasse. 2001. Punctuated evolution of global climate cooling during the late Middle to early Late Miocene: high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal and oxygen isotope records from the Mediterranean. Paleoceanography 16(4):405-423.

Data Coverage North: 37.25 * South: 37.25
West: 14.5 * East: 14.5
Altitude: 0 m

Start Year: 12122642 14C yr BP * End Year: 9776832 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  turco2001
  montegib-tab.txt

Summary:

Records of past climate and ocean circulation derived from marine sediments. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
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Parameters:

Globigerina falconensis percent; Globoquadrina sp.1 percent; Fragments percent; Globigerinoides subquadratus percent; Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina percent; delta O18 PDB (Planktonic Foraminifers); Neogloboquadrina acostaensis s.s. percent; Globigerinoides trilobus percent; Globoturborotalita apertura-Globigerinoides obliquus group percent; Bolboforma percent; Globorotalia menardii group percent; delta O18 PDB (Benthic Foraminifers); Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (left coiling) percent; Tenuitella clemenciae percent; Globigerina bulloides+Globigerina falconensis group percent; Unidentified planktonic foraminifers percent; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (right coiling) percent; Globorotalia scitula group percent; Sphaeroidinella dehiscens percent; Globoturborotalita nepenthes percent; Globorotaloides falconarae percent; Neogloboquadrina atlantica (large) percent; Principle Component One-Turco'01; Globoquadrina altispira percent; Globigerina cf. G. quinqueloba percent; Globigerina bulloides percent; Globorotalia partimlabiata percent; Neogloboquadrina atlantica (small) percent; Globigerinella siphonifera percent; Globigerinita glutinata percent; Neogloboquadrina acostaensis four-chambered type percent; Planktonics to Planktonics+Benthics percent; Orbulina species percent; radiocarbon years before 1950AD; Paragloborotalia mayeri percent

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