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Mackensen, Andreas (1992): Neogene benthic foraminifers from the Kerguelen Plateau [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760258, Supplement to: Mackensen, A (1992): Neogene benthic foraminifers from the southern Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Plateau): biostratigraphy and Paleoecology. In: S.W. Wise, JR., R. Schlich, et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 649-674, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.120.167.1992

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Abstract:
Benthic foraminifers were studied quantitatively in 120 lower Miocene through upper Pleistocene samples from Ocean Drilling Program Site 747 (Central Kerguelen Plateau) and Sites 748 and 751 (Southern Kerguelen Plateau). These sites are situated on an 450-km-long, north-south transect between 54°49'S and 58°26'S at present water depths between 1696 and 1288 m. Principal component analysis on the census data of the most abundant 92 taxa helped to identify 8 benthic foraminifer assemblages. These benthic foraminifer assemblages were compared with Holocene faunas from southern high latitudes to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions.
Middle lower Miocene sediments are characterized by a Uvigerina hispidocostata assemblage, indicating high paleoproductivity and/or not well-ventilated bottom water. From late early to late middle Miocene time, the Southern Kerguelen Plateau was bathed by a young, well-oxygenated, and carbonate-aggressive water mass, as indicated by a Nuttallides umbonifer-dominated benthic foraminifer assemblage. During late middle Miocene time, an Astrononion pusillum assemblage took over for only about 1 m.y., probably indicating the first injection of an aged water mass, similar to the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), into a developing circumpolar current system. Around the middle to late Miocene boundary, the fauna again became dominated by N. umbonifer. After the last appearance of N. umbonifer, reestablishment of the A. pusillum assemblage from the early late through at least the late late Miocene, indicated the established influence of a NADW-like water mass.
The latest Miocene through middle late Pliocene benthic foraminifer assemblage was characterized by Epistominella exigua and strong carbonate dissolution, indicating very high biosiliceous production, and this in turn may indicate the formation and paleoposition of an Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone. From the late late Pliocene, a Trifarina angulosa assemblage (indicative today of sandy substrate and vigorous bottom currents) strongly dominated the fauna up to the late Pleistocene, when Bulimina aculeata (indicative today of calm sedimentation with high organic matter fluxes) became an important and partly dominating constituent of the fauna. This is interpreted as the faunal response to the decreased winnowing force (bottom current velocities) of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during periods of global climatic amelioration and raised sea level.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -56.818133 * Median Longitude: 78.396303 * South-bound Latitude: -58.441000 * West-bound Longitude: 76.794000 * North-bound Latitude: -54.811000 * East-bound Longitude: 79.814800
Date/Time Start: 1988-03-06T22:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-04-19T23:30:00
Event(s):
120-747A * Latitude: -54.811000 * Longitude: 76.794000 * Date/Time Start: 1988-03-06T22:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-03-08T17:15:00 * Elevation: -1706.0 m * Penetration: 256 m * Recovery: 227.34 m * Location: South Indian Ridge, South Indian Ocean * Campaign: Leg120 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 27 cores; 256 m cored; 0 m drilled; 88.8 % recovery
120-748B * Latitude: -58.441000 * Longitude: 78.998100 * Date/Time Start: 1988-03-14T07:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-03-15T11:00:00 * Elevation: -1301.0 m * Penetration: 225.1 m * Recovery: 190.15 m * Location: South Indian Ridge, South Indian Ocean * Campaign: Leg120 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 25 cores; 225.1 m cored; 0 m drilled; 84.5 % recovery
120-751A * Latitude: -57.726000 * Longitude: 79.814800 * Date/Time Start: 1988-04-18T20:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-04-19T23:30:00 * Elevation: -1644.0 m * Penetration: 166.2 m * Recovery: 162.92 m * Location: South Indian Ridge, South Indian Ocean * Campaign: Leg120 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 18 cores; 166.2 m cored; 0 m drilled; 98 % recovery
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  1. Mackensen, A (1992): (Table 1) Neogene benthic foraminifers of ODP Hole 120-747A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760240
  2. Mackensen, A (1992): (Table 2) Neogene benthic foraminifers of ODP Hole 120-748B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760246
  3. Mackensen, A (1992): (Table 3) Neogene benthic foraminifers of ODP Hole 120-751A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760248
  4. Mackensen, A (1992): (Table 4) Benthic foraminifer assemblage boundaries in ODP Leg 120 holes. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760251
  5. Mackensen, A (1992): (Appendix B) Varimax principal components loadings with communalities of ODP Leg 120 holes. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760253
  6. Mackensen, A (1992): (Appendix C) Varimax principal components scores of benthic foraminiferal assembages of ODP Leg 120 holes. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760256