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Article Dans Une Revue Paleoceanography Année : 1990

FLUCTUATIONS IN THE COMPOSITION OF LATE MIOCENE CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES AS A RESPONSE TO ORBITAL FORCING

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Fluctuations in abundance between the two calcareous nannofossil species Coccolithus pelagicus and Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilica are observed in the upper Miocene sediments recovered from Deep Sea Drilling Project hole 552A. A record of these fluctuations (Cp/Rp) is established for a time interval of similar to 1.35 m.y. (from 4.9 to 6.25 Ma) and is shown to yield periodicities which correspond to Milankovitch periodicities. A change in regime occurred at 5.72 Ma, as indicated by a shift from a series dominated by the 20-kyr cycle to a series dominated by the 100-kyr cycle. The Cp/Rp is compared with the isotopic delta O-18 and delta C-13 records from benthic and planktonic foraminifera. It is shown that a good correlation between the Cp/Rp and the isotopic records occurs only at times of major global changes. This suggests that the Cp/Rp, which reflects water masses movements, yields a complex paleoclimatic/paleoceanographic message which can help improving our understanding of the late Miocene history.
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Luc L Beaufort, Marie-Pierre Aubry. FLUCTUATIONS IN THE COMPOSITION OF LATE MIOCENE CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES AS A RESPONSE TO ORBITAL FORCING. Paleoceanography, 1990, 5 (6), pp.845-865. ⟨10.1029/PA005i006p00845⟩. ⟨hal-01460402⟩
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