Planktonic foraminiferal faunas and stable isotope ratios of sediments from the Benguela Upwelling System

• Main Authors: Little, Mark G, Schneider, Ralph R, Kroon, Dick, Price, B, Bickert, Torsten, Wefer, Gerold
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1997
• Subjects: GeoB; GeoB1706-2; GeoB1711; GeoB1711-4; GeoB1711-5; Geosciences; University of Bremen; Giant box corer; GKG; Gravity corer (Kiel type); M20/2; Meteor (1986); Namibia Continental Margin; Namibia continental slope; SL; Walvis Ridge; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.734360; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.734360

Two sediment cores retrieved from the continental slope in the Benguela Upwelling System, GeoB 1706 (19°33.7'S 11°10.5'E) and GeoB 1711 (23°18.9'S, 12°22.6'E), reveal striking variations in planktonic foraminiferal abundances during the last 160,000 years. These fluctuations are...