Calcareous nannofossil abundance estimates and datums of ODP Leg 189 sites

• Main Authors: Wei, Wuchang, McGonigal, Kristeen L, Zhong, Shilan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2003
• Subjects: 189-1168A; 189-1170A; 189-1170D; 189-1171C; 189-1171D; 189-1172A; 189-1172D; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Indian Ocean; Joides Resolution; Leg189; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Pacific Ocean; Tasman Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.780194; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.780194

A major objective of Leg 189 was to date the opening of the Australia-Antarctic Gateway to shallow-water circulation and subsequently to deepwater circulation in the Paleogene. Calcareous nannofossils are the most consistently present, although not necessarily the most abundant fossil group in Paleo...