Nannofossil assemblages of mid-Pliocene sediments from the equatorial Atlantic

• Main Authors: Shackleton, Nicholas J, Gibbs, Samantha J, Young, Jeremy
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2004
• Subjects: 108-662A; 154-926; 154-926A; 154-926C; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg108; Leg154; North Atlantic Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.676965; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.676965

Downcore cyclic variation in high-resolution nannofossil abundance records from mid-Pliocene equatorial Atlantic ODP Sites 662 and 926 demonstrate the direct response by several Pliocene taxa (notably Discoaster, Sphenolithus and Florisphaera profunda) to orbitally forced climatic variation. In part...