Siliceous microfossil assemblage and accumulation rate variations across the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum at ODP Site 171-1051 ...

• Main Authors: Witkowski, Jakub, Bohaty, Steven M, Edgar, Kirsty M, Harwood, David M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Composite Core; Leg171B; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.828089; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.828089

The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO; ~ 40 million years ago [Ma]) is one of the most prominent transient global warming events in the Paleogene. Although the event is well documented in geochemical and isotopic proxy records at many locations, the marine biotic response to the MECO remains poor...