Benthic foraminifera and phytodetritus species in sediments from DSDP Leg 85, and ODP Legs 113 and 143

• Main Authors: Thomas, Ellen, Gooday, Andrew J
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1996
• Subjects: 113-689; 113-690; 143-865; 85-573; 85-574; 85-575; COMPCORE; Composite Core; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Joides Resolution; Leg113; Leg143; Leg85; North Pacific/FLANK; North Pacific/TROUGH; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Atlantic Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.712704; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.712704

From late middle Eocene through earliest Oligocene, high-latitude regions cooled, and by the end of the period, continental ice sheets existed in Antarctica. Diversity of planktonic microorganisms declined, and modern groups of terrestrial vertebrates originated. Coeval faunal changes in deep-sea be...