Eco-biostratigraphic advances in late quaternary geochronology and palaeoclimate: The marginal Gulf of Mexico analogue

• Main Authors: Antonarakou, A., Kontakiotis, G., Karageorgis, A.P., Besiou, E., Zarkogiannis, S., Drinia, H., Mortyn, G.P., Tripsanas, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Greenland ice core; ice core
• Online Access: https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/uoadl:3069067

This study combines high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal eco-biostratigraphy and palaeoclimatic data from the high-sedimentation-rate core JPC-26 from the northwestern margin of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The eco-biozones recognized (GOMPFE1-12) being correlated with published Mg/Ca-based sea surface temperatures. This updated palaeoclimatic and stratigraphic reference record facilitates correlations with the Greenland ice core events and their climatic relationships, and also provides a solid stratigraphic framework for correlations with other palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic records in the circum-GOM/Caribbean region. This multidisciplinary approach underlines the utility of supporting conventional dating methodologies with different constraints, and further reveals a powerful tool for reliably correlating marine records between comparable deep-sea marginal settings and coeval sequences of this region. © 2019 Polish Geological Institute. All rights reserved.