Late Miocene to Quaternary planktonic foraminifera of ODP SIte 114-704 ...

• Main Author: Brunner, Charlotte A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Leg114; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.755426; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.755426

The planktonic foraminiferal zonation of Jenkins and Srinivasan (1986), which was defined for the southwestern sector of the temperate South Pacific Ocean, was successfully extended to the temperate sequences at Site 704. The zonation is based on first and last appearances of globorotalids, principally Globoconella species, which are indigenous to temperate surface-water masses. Most of the first and last appearances at ODP Site 704 are diachronous with those in the warmer temperate to subtropical South Atlantic, North Atlantic, and South Pacific oceans.The upper Miocene, upper Pliocene, and Quaternary sequences are punctuated by frequent incursions of subantarctic and polar assemblages of planktonic foraminifers. I assume that the appearance of an assemblage dominated by sinistral Neogloboquadrina pachyderma means that the Polar Front has migrated northward, but I do not know its position north or south of the site based on this preliminary work. The upper Miocene sequence contains five incursions between ... : Supplement to: Brunner, Charlotte A (1991): Latest Miocene to Quaternary biostratigraphy and paleoceanography, Site 704, subantarctic South Atlantic Ocean. In: Ciesielski, PF; Kristoffersen, Y; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 114, 201-215 ...