Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge core 5 Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Kevin M. Foley, Richard Z. Poore
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 1993
• Subjects: faunal and floral census (microscopic); climate change; paleoceanography; protists; geospatial datasets; 1300 - Marine Geology; 1700 - Paleontology; geoscientificInformation; OC10 = Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada Basin; Northwind Ridge; Arctic; Canada; Polar Star; canada basin; Climate change
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/02c40dfa-42ff-4e7f-83db-5d646072d040

The U.S. Geological Survey recovered 9 piston cores from the Northwind Ridge in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean from a cruise of the USCGC Polar Star during 1988. Preliminary analysis of the cores suggests sediments deposited on Northwind Ridge preserve a detailed record of glacial and interglacial cycles for the last few hundred-thousand to one million years. This report includes quantitative data on foraminifers and selected sediment size-fraction data in samples from Northwind Ridge core PI-88AR P5.