Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge cores PI-88-AR P3, PI-88-AR P7, and PI-88-AR P9, Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Kevin M. Foley, Richard Z. Poore
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 1993
• Subjects: climate change; paleoceanography; protists; faunal and floral census (microscopic); datasets; Arctic Ocean; Canada Basin; Northwind Ridge; 1300 - Marine Geology; 1700 - Paleontology; geoscientificInformation; OC10 = Arctic; Arctic; Canada; Polar Star; canada basin; Climate change
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/18f2d78b-a55f-42ac-8636-c3b38d655a3b

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 98 samples from Northwind Ridge core PI-88AR P3, 51 samples from core PI-88-AR P7 and 117 samples from core PI-88-AR P9.