Planktonic foraminiferal faunas from surface-sediment samples from the South China Sea and the western Pacific ...

We present 30 new planktonic foraminiferal census data of surface sediment samples from the South China Sea, recovered between 630 and 2883 m water depth. These new data, together with the 131 earlier published data sets from the western Pacific, are used for calibrating the SIMMAX-28 transfer funct...

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Main Authors: Pflaumann, Uwe, Jian, Zhimin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1999
Subjects:
Piston corer
Gravity corer
Grab
Trigger corer
Giant box corer
CTD/Rosette
Gravity corer Kiel type
ANTIPODE
Challenger1872
CIRCE
DODO
SO95
LUSIAD-A
LSDA-SCS
LUSIAD-H
MD13
MONSOON
PROA
RC10
RC11
RC12
RC14
RC17
V16
V19
V20
V21
V24
V28
V32
V34
Melville
H.M.S. Challenger 1872
Argo
Sonne
Horizon
Marion Dufresne 1972
Spencer F. Baird
Robert Conrad
Vema
Institute for Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel GIK/IfG
Planktonic foraminifera
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.726657
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.726657
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Summary:We present 30 new planktonic foraminiferal census data of surface sediment samples from the South China Sea, recovered between 630 and 2883 m water depth. These new data, together with the 131 earlier published data sets from the western Pacific, are used for calibrating the SIMMAX-28 transfer function to estimate past sea-surface temperatures. This regional SIMMAX method offers a slightly better understanding of the marginal sea conditions of the South China Sea than the linear transfer function FP-12E, which is based only on open-ocean data. However, both methods are biased toward the tropical temperature regime because of the very limited data from temperate to subpolar regions. The SIMMAX formula was applied to sediment core 17940 from the northeastern South China Sea, with sedimentation rates of 20-80 cm/ka. Results revealed nearly unchanged summer temperatures around 28°C for the last 30 ky, while winter temperatures varied between 19.5°C in the last glacial maximum and 26°C during the Holocene. During ... : Supplement to: Pflaumann, Uwe; Jian, Zhimin (1999): Modern distribution patterns of planktonic foraminifera in the South China Sea and western Pacific: a new transfer technique to estimate regional sea-surface temperatures. Marine Geology, 156(1-4), 41-83 ...

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