Radiolarian Assemblage Counts from Northwest Pacific Surface Sediments

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The Northwest Pacific Ocean is a broad ocean influenced by two major currents: the cold Oyashio Current flowing southward and the warm Kuroshio Current flowing northward. In this region, radiolarian microfossils are well preserved in deep-sea sediments, making them valuable proxies for reconstructing past oceanic conditions. Here, I present radiolarian assemblage census data covering the equatorial to subarctic Northwest Pacific. This dataset, comprising 122 samples, can be valuable not only for estimating Sea Surface Temperature but also for conducting further ecological analyses using advanced statistical methods. These data are published in Matsuzaki and Itaki (2017, Paleoceanography) and Matsuzaki et al. (2025, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.983804
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003087
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00706-6
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.983804
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Creator Matsuzaki, Kenji M ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 19KK0089 https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19KK0089 Evolution of the thermocline in the Indo Pacific Warm Pool during warmer climate phases of the late Neogene
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 6563 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (124.240W, -1.000S, 167.512E, 49.372N)