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- Title
Late Pliocene age control and composite depths at ODP Site 982, revisited.
- Authors
Khélifi, N.; Sarnthein, M.; Naafs, B. D. A.
- Abstract
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 982 provided a key sediment section at Rockall Plateau for reconstructing northeast Atlantic paleoceanography and monitoring benthic δ18O stratigraphy over the Late Pliocene to Quaternary onset of major Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. A renewed hole-specific inspection of magnetostratigraphic events and the addition of epibenthic δ18O records for short Pliocene sections in holes 982A, B, and C, crossing core breaks in the δ18O record published for Hole 982B, now imply a major revision of composite core depths. After tuning to the orbitally tuned reference record LR04 the new composite δ18O record results in a hiatus, where the Kaena magnetic event might been lost, and in a significant age reduction for all proxy records by 130 to 20 ka over the time span 3.2-2.7million yr ago (Ma). Our study demonstrates the significance of reliable composite-depth scales and δ18O stratigraphies in ODP sediment records for ocean-wide correlations in paleoceanography and makes Late Pliocene trends found at Site 982 much better comparable to those published from elsewhere in the North Atlantic.
- Subjects
ATLANTIC Ocean; PLIOCENE paleoclimatology; SEDIMENTS; QUATERNARY paleoclimatology; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Climate of the Past Discussions, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 3, p1631
- ISSN
1814-9324
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/cpd-7-1631-2011