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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Plio-Pleistocene astronomical timescale

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Lourens, L.J., A. Antonarakou, F.J. Hilgen, A.A.M. Van Hoof, C. Vergnaud-Grazzini, and W.J. Zachariasse. 1996. Evaluation of the Plio-Pleistocene astronomical timescale. Paleoceanography 11(4):391-413.
Data Coverage North: 37.5 * South: 37.5
West: 13.5 * East: 13.5
Altitude: 0 m

Start Year: 5330000 14C yr BP * End Year: 1212000 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  lourens1996
  medisect-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:

Orbulina universa percent; Neogloboquadrina sp.-left coiling percent; Globigerina falconensis percent; Globorotalia inflata percent; Globorotalia scitula percent; Globigerinoides ruber percent; Neogloboquadrina sp.-right coiling percent; Globorotalia crassaformis percent; Globigerinoides sacculifer percent; Globoturborotalita apertura group percent; Neogloboquadrina atlantica percent; Unidentified planktonic foraminifers percent; Globigerina bulloides+Globigerina falconensis juveniles percent; delta O18 PDB; Sea Surface Temperature (C); Globigerina bulloides+Globigerina falconensis indeterminable percent; Globorotalia margaritae percent; Globoquadrina altispira percent; Spherodinellopsis sp. Percent; Globigerinella siphonifera percent; Globigerina bulloides percent; Globorotalia truncatulinoides percent; Globigerinita glutinata percent; Turborotalita quinqueloba percent; Globorotalia menardii percent; radiocarbon years before 1950AD; Globigerinoides obliquus percent

Complete XML Record:

noaa-ocean-2575  (Last Revised: 2007-12-21 )

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