Wilkes Land Late Pleistocene diatom age model: From bio-events to quantitative biostratigraphy

• Published in: Revue de Micropaléontologie
• Main Authors: Tolotti, R., Bárcena, M. A., Macrì, Patrizia, Caburlotto, A., Bonci, M. C., de Santis, Laura, Donda, F., Corradi, Nicola, Crosta, X.
• Other Authors: Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa (UniGe), Universidad de Salamanca, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Roma (INGV), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Matuyama-Brunhes Transition; Mid Pleistocene Transition; Late Pleistocene; Quantitative Biostratigraphy; Diatom Biomarkers; Paleomagnetic dataset; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02105533; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2018.05.001

International audience A new method merges conventional and quantitative biostratigraphic approaches, supported by magnetic polarity data, to develop a chronological framework for sediment core MD03-2595 retrieved on the continental rise off Wilkes Land, East Antarctica before proceeding to paleocea...