Benthic foraminiferal accumulation rates of the late Pliocene-Pleistocene in the northern Indian Ocean

• Main Authors: Kawagata, Shungo, Hayward, Bruce William, Gupta, Anil K
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2006
• Subjects: 117-722B; 121-758; Arabian Sea; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Indian Ocean; Joides Resolution; Leg117; Leg121; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Antarc*; Antarctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.684689; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.684689

During the late Pliocene–middle Pleistocene, 63 species of elongate, bathyal–upper abyssal benthic foraminifera (Extinction Group = Stilostomellidae, Pleurostomellidae, some Nodosariidae) declined in abundance and finally disappeared in the northern Indian Ocean (ODP Sites 722, 758), as part of the...