Smart, Christopher W; Thomas, Ellen (2006): Oxygen and carbon isotope data for benthic foraminifera from DSDP Site 94-608 and ODP Site 208-1264 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.713696, Supplement to: Smart, CW; Thomas, E (2006): The enigma of early Miocene biserial planktic foraminifera. Geology, 34(12), 1041-1044, https://doi.org/10.1130/G23038A.1
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Abstract:
Small biserial foraminifera were abundant in the early Miocene (ca. 18.9-17.2 Ma) in the eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans, but absent in the western equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Weddell Sea, eastern Indian Ocean, and equatorial Pacific Ocean. They have been assigned to the benthic genus Bolivina, but their high abundances in sediments without evidence for dysoxia could not be explained. Apertural morphology, accumulation rates, and isotopic composition show that they were planktic (genus Streptochilus). Living Streptochilus are common in productive waters with intermittent upwelling. The widespread early Miocene high Streptochilus abundances may reflect vigorous but intermittent upwelling, inducing high phytoplankton growth rates. However, export production (estimated from benthic foraminiferal accumulation rates) was low, possibly due to high regeneration rates in a deep thermocline. The upwelled waters may have been an analog to Subantarctic Mode Waters, carrying nutrients into the eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans as the result of the initiation of a deep-reaching Antarctic Circumpolar Current, active Agulhas Leakage, and vigorous vertical mixing in the Southern Oceans.
Project(s):
Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 7.152055 * Median Longitude: -10.121002 * South-bound Latitude: -28.532680 * West-bound Longitude: -23.087500 * North-bound Latitude: 42.836700 * East-bound Longitude: 2.845510
Date/Time Start: 1983-07-13T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-04-08T03:50:00
Event(s):
94-608 * Latitude: 42.836700 * Longitude: -23.087500 * Date/Time: 1983-07-13T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3526.0 m * Penetration: 530.3 m * Recovery: 428.3 m * Location: North Atlantic/FLANK * Campaign: Leg94 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 59 cores; 529.3 m cored; 0 m drilled; 80.9 % recovery
208-1264A * Latitude: -28.532680 * Longitude: 2.845510 * Date/Time Start: 2003-04-05T13:10:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-04-06T21:55:00 * Elevation: -2507.0 m * Penetration: 280.7 m * Recovery: 270.71 m * Location: Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: Leg208 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 30 cores; 280.7 m cored; 0 m drilled; 96.4 % recovery
208-1264B * Latitude: -28.532500 * Longitude: 2.845480 * Date/Time Start: 2003-04-06T21:55:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-04-08T03:50:00 * Elevation: -2504.0 m * Penetration: 282.8 m * Recovery: 290.09 m * Location: Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: Leg208 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 30 cores; 282.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 102.6 % recovery
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- Smart, CW; Thomas, E (2006): (Table DR2) Oxygen and carbon isotope data for benthic foraminifera from DSDP Site 94-608. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.713695
- Smart, CW; Thomas, E (2006): (Table DR2) Oxygen and carbon isotope data for benthic foraminifera from ODP Site 208-1264. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.713694