Publication Date:
2023-03-30
Description:
The equatorial Pacific thermocline is a critical component in determining the ocean-atmosphere interactions of the tropics. During the Pliocene warm period, the tropical thermocline was warm and/or deep and shoaled toward present day. Here we use Mg/Ca values of subsurface-dwelling Globorotalia tumida to reconstruct subsurface temperatures at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, JOIDES Resolution, Expedition 320/321, Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, Site U1338.
Keywords:
321-U1338; AGE; Calcium; Calculated from Mg/Ca ratios (Mohtadi et al. 2011); COMPCORE; Composite Core; Depth, bottom/max; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth, top/min; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Exp321; Globorotalia tumida, Magnesium/Calcium ratio; Globorotalia tumida, Manganese/Calcium ratio; Globorotalia tumida, Strontium/Calcium ratio; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; Joides Resolution; Pacific Equatorial Age Transect II / Juan de Fuca; Sample code/label; Sub-surface temperature
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 760 data points
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