Planktonic foraminifera in ODP Hole 160-963A

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New faunal and floral records from Ocean Drilling Project Hole 963A, resolved at ?80-year spacing, provide evidence of suborbital scale climate variability in the central Mediterranean Sea throughout Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5. Cold events in the central Mediterranean Sea, indicated by low abundances of warm species and high abundances of cold species, are also evident in a planktonic foraminifera paleoclimatic curve. They have been linked to NGRIP Greenland ice core “C” events and appear correlative with similar sub-millennial climate fluctuations identified in the North Atlantic region and in the Alboran Basin (Westernmost Mediterranean). Low-resolution benthic and planktonic Oxygen Isotope fluctuations parallel trends in the surface records evidenced by planktonic assemblage fluctuations, bolstering their interpretation as climate proxies. Climate events also occur in the Mediterranean between named “C” events, and may be coeval with additional climate events identified recently in the western subtropical Atlantic. Hence, we propose that frequent climate oscillations during MIS 5 characterize both sides of the mid-latitude North Atlantic, perhaps indicating millennial scale variations in mid-latitude atmospheric patterns.

Supplement to: Sprovieri, Rodolfo; Di Stefano, Enrico; Incarbona, Alessandro; Oppo, Delia W (2006): Suborbital climate variability during Marine Isotopic Stage 5 in the central Mediterranean basin: evidence from calcareous plankton record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(17-18), 2332-2342

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.778342
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.035
Related Identifier ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/sprovieri2006/sprovieri2006.txt
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.778342
Provenance
Creator Sprovieri, Rodolfo; Di Stefano, Enrico ORCID logo; Incarbona, Alessandro ORCID logo; Oppo, Delia W ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2006
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 12896 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (13.182 LON, 37.032 LAT); Strait of Sicilia
Temporal Coverage Begin 1995-03-14T21:50:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1995-03-15T21:54:00Z