Faunal counts of planktonic foraminifera and sea surface temperatures from ODP Site 983

• Main Author: Barker, Stephen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: 162-983A; AGE; Atlantic Inflow; Comment; Counting >150 µm fraction; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Dissimilarity index; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Foraminifera; planktic indeterminata; Globigerina bulloides; Globigerinella siphonifera; Globigerinita glutinata; Globigerinita uvula; Globigerinoides ruber white; Globoconella inflata; Globorotalia crassaformis; Globorotalia scitula; Globorotalia truncatulinoides; Joides Resolution; Leg162; Mid Pleistocene Transition; Modern analog technique (MAT); Neogloboquadrina incompta; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; North Atlantic Current; North Atlantic Ocean; Number; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Orbulina universa; Pulleniatina obliquiloculata; Sample code/label; Sea surface temperature; annual mean; Tenuitella iota; Turborotalita quinqueloba; Arctic; Foraminifera*; north atlantic current; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.929742; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.929742

This dataset contains faunal counts of planktonic foraminifera and calculated (MAT) sea surface temperatures from ODP Site 983. Sediment samples from the splice of ODP Site 983 [Jansen et al., 1996] were spun overnight and washed with deionised water through a 63 μm sieve before being dried at 40°C. IRD and faunal counts were made on the >150 μm fraction after splitting to yield approximately 300 entities. IRD was considered as the total number of lithogenic/terrigenous grains counted. Only left coiling specimens of N. pachyderma were counted and all 5 morphotypes of N. pachyderma found in recent Arctic sediments [Eynaud, 2011] were counted.