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Westerhold, Thomas; Röhl, Ursula (2013): Revised composite depth scale, Fe content and orbital tuning of Middle Eocene Climate Optimum samples from ODP Site 207-1260 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817217, Supplement to: Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): Orbital pacing of Eocene climate during the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum and the chron C19r event: Missing link found in the tropical western Atlantic. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(11), 4811-4825, https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20293

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Abstract:
A high-resolution stratigraphy is essential toward deciphering climate variability in detail and understanding causality arguments of events in earth history. Because the highly dynamic middle to late Eocene provides a suitable testing ground for carbon cycle models for a waning warm world, an accurate time scale is needed to decode climate-driving mechanisms. Here we present new results from ODP Site 1260 (Leg 207) which covers a unique expanded middle Eocene section (magnetochrons C18r to C20r, late Lutetian to early Bartonian) of the tropical western Atlantic including the chron C19r transient hyperthermal event and the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum (MECO). To establish a detailed cyclostratigraphy we acquired a distinctive iron intensity records by XRF scanning Site 1260 cores. We revise the shipboard composite section, establish a cyclostratigraphy and use the exceptional eccentricity modulated precession cycles for orbital tuning. The new astrochronology revises the age of magnetic polarity chrons C19n to C20n, validates the position of very long eccentricity minima at 40.2 and 43.0 Ma in the orbital solutions, and extends the Astronomically Tuned Geological Time Scale back to 44 Ma. For the first time the new data provide clear evidence for an orbital pacing of the chron C19r event and a likely involvement of the very long eccentricity cycle contributing to the evolution of the MECO.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 9.265661 * Median Longitude: -54.544037 * South-bound Latitude: 9.265510 * West-bound Longitude: -54.544200 * North-bound Latitude: 9.265800 * East-bound Longitude: -54.543880
Date/Time Start: 2003-02-07T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-02-12T23:45:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S3) Fe intensities of the measured split core sediment surface area of ODP Site 207-1260. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817206
  2. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S5) Offsets applied to cores from ODP Holes 207-1260A and 207-1260B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817208
  3. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S4) List of tie points used to create the revised composite depth section for ODP Site 207-1260. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817207
  4. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S6) Tuning tie points for ODP Site 207-1260. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817215
  5. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S1) Fe intensities of the measured split core sediment surface area of ODP Hole 207-1260A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817204
  6. Westerhold, T; Röhl, U (2013): (Table S2) Fe intensities of the measured split core sediment surface area of ODP Hole 207-1260B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817205