(Figure 2) Diatom relative abundance of sediment core PS58/254-1

• Main Authors: Konfirst, Matthew Alan, Scherer, Reed P, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Accumulation rate; mass; Actinocyclus actinochilus; Actinocyclus ingens; AGE; ANT-XVIII/5a; AWI_Paleo; Azpeitia tabularis; Calculated; Chaetoceros spp.; Counting; diatoms; DEPTH; sediment/rock; marine; reworked; sea-ice; total abundance per unit sediment mass; Diatoms tropical/subtropical; Distephanus speculum; Eucampia antarctica; Fragilariopsis curta; Fragilariopsis kerguelensis; Fragilariopsis separanda; Hemidiscus karstenii; KL; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Piston corer (BGR type); Polarstern; PS58; PS58/254-1; Rhizosolenia spp.; Rouxia antarctica; Rouxia constricta; Southeast Pacific; Thalassionema spp.; Thalassiosira elliptipora; Thalassiosira fasciculata; Thalassiosira gracilis; Thalassiosira lentiginosa; Thalassiosira oestrupii; Thalassiosira oliverana; Thalassiosira tetraoestrupii; Thalassiosira tetraoestrupii var. reimeri; Thalassiothrix antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pacific; Pine Island Bay; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.779253; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.779253

The goal of this study is to assess the changes that have occurred during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, an important transitional period in cryosphere evolution, by examining the siliceous microfossil record of sediments collected proximal to a major ice drainage outlet for the West Antarctic Ice...