O, C and Sr isotopic data for plankton and benthic foraminifera from DSDP Legs 26, 32, 36, and 71 sediments

A detailed d18O and d13C stratigraphy has been generated from analysis of well-preserved Albian - Early Maastrichtian foraminifera from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Sites 511 and 327 (Falkland Plateau; ~58°S - 62°S paleolatitude) in the southern South Atlantic, and Cenomanian and Coniacian - San...

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Main Authors: Huber, Brian T, Hodell, David A, Hamilton, Christopher P
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1995
Subjects:
26-258
26-258A
32-305
36-327A
71-511
Deep Sea Drilling Project
DRILL
Drilling/drill rig
DSDP
Glomar Challenger
Indian Ocean//PLATEAU
Leg26
Leg32
Leg36
Leg71
North Pacific/CONT RISE
South Atlantic/PLATEAU
Falkland Plateau
Indian
Pacific
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Planktonic foraminifera
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.718784
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.718784
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Summary:A detailed d18O and d13C stratigraphy has been generated from analysis of well-preserved Albian - Early Maastrichtian foraminifera from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Sites 511 and 327 (Falkland Plateau; ~58°S - 62°S paleolatitude) in the southern South Atlantic, and Cenomanian and Coniacian - Santonian foraminifera from DSDP Site 258 (Naturaliste Plateau; ~58°S paleolatitude) in the southern Indian Ocean. These results, when combined with previously published Maastrichtian stable isotope data from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 690 (Weddell Sea, ~65°S paleolatitude), provide new insight into the climatic and oceanographic history of the southern high latitudes during Middle-Late Cretaceous time. The planktonic foraminifer d18O curves reveal a gradual warming of surface waters from the Albian through the Cenomanian followed by extremely warm surface waters from the Turonian through the early Campanian. Long-term cooling of surface waters began in the late early Campanian and continued through the end of the Maastrichtian. The benthic foraminifer d18O record generally parallels changes in the oxygen isotopic curves defined by shallow-dwelling planktonic foraminifera. The vertical oxygen and carbon isotopic gradients were relatively low during the Albian - Cenomanian, high from the Turonian - Early Campanian, and then low during the late Campanian and Maastrichtian.

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