Stable isotope analysis on planktic foraminifera in sediment cores from the eastern Mediterranean sapropel formation

• Main Authors: Jenkins, Janice A, Williams, Douglas F
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1984
• Subjects: CH119-12PG; CH119-16PG; CH119-18PC; CH119-18PG; CH119-6PG; CHA_UK; Challenger; Climatic Variability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation; CLIVAMP; GC; Gravity corer; Mediterranean Sea; Eastern Basin; P6508-36B; PC; Piston corer; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.727247; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.727247

During the late Pleistocene, sapropels (layers of organic-carbon rich sediment) formed throughout the entire Eastern Mediterranean Basin in close association with glacial/interglacial transitions. The current theory for the mechanism of sapropel formation involves a density stratification of the wat...