ODP658: Benthic isotopes of marine core ODP658

In mcrucifix/pleistocene: Datasets of glacial cycles (ice and ocean)

Description

ODP Leg 108

Usage

data(ODP658)

Format

ODP658 is a data frame with the following variables.

Variables:
[1] "depth" "Age"	Age (in kyr)
"GInflata_d18O"	d18O measures in G. inflata
"GInflata_d13C"	d13C measured in G. inflata
"Cibicides_d18O"	d18O measures in Cibicides
"Cibicides_d13C"	d13C measured in Cibicides
"Bacculeata_d18O"	d18O measured in B. acculeata
"Bacculeata_d13C"	d13C measures in B. acculeata

Details

ODP Site 658 off Cap Blanc, West Africa (20N, 18W) is located within the core of the wind-driven West African upwelling region, and has high sedimentation rates (15 cm/kyr) due to high biogenic and terrigenous (eolian dust) sediment supply [verbatim copy from P. de Menocal's home page : http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~peter/

Note

The same core has been studied from a marine palynology point of view by Dupont et al. See. e.g. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80194-5 and de Menocal et al. (abrupt changes durint the Holocene, and end of interglacial

Source

Courtesy from Franck Bassinot. Original data supplied by R. Tiedemann and M. Sarnthein.

References

Tiedemann, R. (1991), Acht Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte von Nordwest Afrika und Palao-Ozeanographie des angrenzenden Atlantiks, Berichte-Reports, 46, 190 pp., Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut und Museum, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel.

Examples

data(ODP658)
## reproduces the ODP658 curve shown in the Lisiecki 2005 paper 
with(ODP658,plot(Age,-Cibicides_d18O,type='l'))

mcrucifix/pleistocene documentation built on May 22, 2019, 3:20 p.m.