Publication Date:
2023-07-10
Description:
The latest Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) is characterized by several global cooling and intermittent warming events. These climatic changes influenced the palaeoceanography substantially, including changes of the deep water sources and surface water currents. One of the most prominent episodes of climatic cooling occurred during the Campanian–Maastrichtian transition. This study focuses on the palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography of the Campanian–Maastrichtian transition by analysing the calcareous nannofossils of DSDP Hole 390A (139.92–126.15 mbsf; Blake Nose). For the examination of calcareous nannofossils sixty samples were processed using the settling technique. Biostratigraphical index taxa (Broinsonia parca constricta, Uniplanarius trifidus, and Tranolithus orionatus) suggest a late Campanian age for the major part of the studied section. The calcareous nannofossils are well preserved, highly abundant (6.80 billion specimens/gram sediment) and diverse (80 species/sample). The assemblages are dominated by Prediscosphaera spp. (20.5%), Watznaueria spp. (20.3%) and Retecapsa spp. (9.8%). Cool water taxa (Ahmuellerella octoradiata, Gartnerago segmentatum, and Kamptnerius magnificus), however, appear less frequently and do not exceed more than 1%. Due to their rarity these cool water taxa do not support the existence of an intense cooling phase during the Campanian–Maastrichtian transition at DSDP Hole 390A. Around 133 mbsf several nannofossil taxa, however, show a distinctive turnover. Mesotrophic species like Discorhabdus ignotus, Zeugrhabdotus bicrescenticus and Zygodiscus exmouthiensis are abundant below 133 mbsf, whereas oligotrophic taxa like Watznaueria spp., Eiffellithus spp. and Staurolithites flavus become common above this level. These changes imply a decrease in the input of nutrients, perhaps caused by a reorganization of ocean currents (Palaeo Gulf Stream) and reduced upwelling.
Keywords:
44-390A; Ahmuellerella octoradiata; Ahmuellerella regularis; Amphizygus brooksii; Amphizygus cf. brooksii; Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis; Biscutum dissimile; Biscutum ellipticum; Biscutum magnum; Biscutum melaniae; Biscutum notaculum; Braarudosphaera bigelowii; Broinsonia parca constricta; Broinsonia signata; Bukrylithus ambiguus; Calculites obscurus; Ceratolithoides brevicorniculans; Ceratolithoides cf. kamptneri; Ceratolithoides indiensis; Ceratolithoides longissimus; Ceratolithoides prominens; Ceratolithoides self-trailiae; Ceratolithoides sp.; Chiastozygus amphipons; Chiastozygus antiquus; Chiastozygus bifarius; Chiastozygus litterarius; Chiastozygus synquadriperforatus; Chiastozygus trabalis; Corollithion completum; Corollithion exiguum; Corollithion madagaskarensis; Corollithion signum; Cretarhabdus conicus; Cribrocorona gallica; Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii; Cyclagelosphaera reinhardtii; Cylindralithus nieliae; Cylindralithus sculptus; Cylindralithus serratus; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Discorhabdus ignotus; Diversity, simple; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Eiffellithus eximius; Eiffellithus gorkae; Eiffellithus turriseiffelii; Eprolithus sp.; Evenness of species; Flabellites oblongus; Gartnerago segmentatum; Glomar Challenger; Gorkaea obliqueclausus; Grantarhabdus coronadventis; Helicolithus trabeculatus; Kamptnerius magnificus; Lapideacassis sp.; Leg44; Lithraphidites carniolensis; Lithraphidites praequadratus; Lucianorhabdus cayeuxii; Manivitella pemmatoidea; Markalius inversus; Marthasterites sp.; Micrantholithus quasihoschulzii; Microrhabdulus decoratus; Micula concava; Micula decussata; Micula sp.; Micula swastica; Miravetesina bergenii; Misceomarginatus pleniporus; Nannofossils; North Atlantic; Palaeopontosphaera sp.; Perchnielsenella stradneri; Pervilithus varius; Petrarhabdus vietus; Petrobrasiella bownii; Placozygus fibuliformis; Prediscosphaera cretacea; Prediscosphaera grandis; Prediscosphaera majungae; Prediscosphaera microrhabdulina; Prediscosphaera sp.; Prediscosphaera spinosa; Prediscosphaera spp.; Prolatipatella multicarinata; Quadrum gartneri; Random settling technique; Geissen et al. (1999); Reinhardtites levis; Retecapsa angustiforata; Retecapsa crenulata; Retecapsa ficula; Retecapsa schizobrachiata; Retecapsa spp.; Retecapsa surirella; Rhagodiscus angustus; Rhagodiscus indistinctus; Rhagodiscus reniformis; Rhagodiscus splendens; Rhomboaster sp.; Rotelapillus biarcus; Rucinolithus hayi; Rucinolithus sp.; Sample code/label; Scapholithus fossilis; Shannon Diversity Index; Staurolithites ellipticus; Staurolithites flavus; Staurolithites mielnicensis; Staurolithites mutterlosei; Tegumentum stradneri; Tetrapodorhabdus decorus; Tranolithus minimus; Tranolithus orionatus; Tubodiscus sp.; Uniplanarius gothicus; Uniplanarius trifidus; Watznaueria barnesiae; Watznaueria biporta; Watznaueria fossacincta; Watznaueria ovata; Watznaueria spp.; Zeugrhabdotus bicrescenticus; Zeugrhabdotus embergeri; Zeugrhabdotus erectus; Zeugrhabdotus noeliae; Zeugrhabdotus sigmoides; Zygodiscus exmouthiensis; Zygodiscus tunisiensis
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 7620 data points
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