Origins and paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic significance of laminated sediments of middle Pleistocene age from the southern Bering Sea

• Published in: Marine Micropaleontology
• Main Authors: Onodera, Jonaotaro, Kemp, Alan E.S., Pearce, Richard B., Horikawa, Keiji, Takahashi, Kozo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Bowers; Antarc*; Antarctica; Alaska
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/486396/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/486396/1/Onodera_Kemp_accepted.pdf; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/486396/2/1_s2.0_S0377839823001226_main.pdf

Laminated diatomaceous sediments occur intermittently in the Bering Sea over the past 5 million years. A varve (annually deposited) origin for the laminae has been suggested, but there is currently no consensus. Here, we report results of a study of two laminated intervals dating from ~528 ka and ~7...