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Neues vom Ontong-Java-Plateau (Westpazifik)

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For the investigation of climatic history for the last 65 million years, several holes were drilled in 1990 on the Ontong Java Plateau by the drilling vessel Joides Resolution, under the auspices of the international Ocean Drilling Program. The Ontong Java Plateau is the largest basalt plateau on earth, and was formed in the Middle Cretaceous. From the core material, seismic reflectors from the overlying sediments can be associated with specific, climate-related oceanic events. For the cyclic sediments of the last 2 million years, high-resolution isotope curves were generated which depict the two dominant Milankovitch cycles with periods of 100 000 and 41000 years.

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  1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 92093, La Jolla, Ca, USA

    Wolfgang H. Berger

  2. Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, W-2800, Bremen, FRG

    Gerold Wefer

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Berger, W.H., Wefer, G. Neues vom Ontong-Java-Plateau (Westpazifik). Naturwissenschaften 79, 541–550 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01131410

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