# A global planktic foraminifer census data set for the Pliocene ocean #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # NOTE: Please cite original publication, online resource and date accessed when using this data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigator, title, online resource and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Online_Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/19281 # Online_Resource: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/foley2015/ # # Archive: Paleoceanography # # Parameter_Keywords: sea surface temperature #--------------------------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2015-10-02 #--------------------------------------- # Title # Study_Name: A global planktic foraminifer census data set for the Pliocene ocean #--------------------------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Compilers: Foley, Kevin; Robinson, Marci; Dowsett, Harry; Contributors: Dowsett, Harry; Poore, Richard; Robinson, Marci; Foley, Kevin; Stoll, Danielle; Polanco, Emerson; Wiggs, Linda; Caballero, Rocio; Verardo, Stacy; Strother, Stephanie; West, Stephanie; Lutz, Brendan; Brown, Sarah #--------------------------------------- # Description and Notes # Description: Compilers: Foley, Kevin; Robinson, Marci; Dowsett, Harry # Provided Keywords: Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Paleobiology, Pliocene, Piacenzian, Sea Surface Temperature, plankton, planktonic foraminifer, global warming #--------------------------------------- # Publication # Authors: Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Alan M. Haywood, Ulrich Salzmann, Daniel Hill, Linda Sohl, Mark Chandler, Mark Williams, Kevin Foley, and Danielle K. Stoll # Published_Date_or_Year: 2010 # Published_Title: The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction # Journal_Name: Stratigraphy # Volume: 7 # Issue: 2, 3 # Pages: 123 - 139 # Report Number: # DOI: # Abstract: The Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping (PRISM) paleoenvironmental reconstruction is an internally consistent and comprehensive global synthesis of a past interval of relatively warm and stable climate. It is regularly used in model studies that aim to better understand Pliocene climate, to improve model performance in future climate scenarios, and to distinguish model-dependent climate effects. The PRISM reconstruction is constantly evolving in order to incorporate additional geographic sites and environmental parameters, and is continuously refined by independent research findings. The new PRISM three dimensional (3D) reconstruction differs from previous PRISM reconstructions in that it includes a subsurface ocean temperature reconstruction, integrates geochemical sea surface temperature proxies to supplement the faunal-based temperature estimates, and uses numerical models for the first time to augment fossil data. Here we describe the components of PRISM3D and describe new findings specific to the new reconstruction. Highlights of the new PRISM3D reconstruction include removal of Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes and creation of open waterways in locations where the current bedrock elevation is less than 25m above modern sea level, due to the removal of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the reduction of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The mid-Piacenzian oceans were characterized by a reduced east-west temperature gradient in the equatorial Pacific, but PRISM3D data do not imply permanent El Ni̱o conditions. The reduced equator-to-pole temperature gradient that characterized previous PRISM reconstructions is supported by significant displacement of vegetation belts toward the poles, is extended into the Arctic Ocean, and is confirmed by multiple proxies in PRISM3D. Arctic warmth coupled with increased dryness suggests the formation of warm and salty paleo North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and a more vigorous thermohaline circulation system that may have provided the enhanced ocean heat transport necessary to move warm surface water to the Arctic. New deep ocean temperature data also suggests greater warmth and further southward penetration of paleo NADW. #--------------------------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: USGS Climate and Land Use Change Research and Development Program # Grant: #--------------------------------------- # Site Information # Site_Name: ODP 1063A # Location: North Atlantic # Country: # Northernmost_Latitude: 33.6867 # Southernmost_Latitude: 33.6867 # Easternmost_Longitude: -57.615 # Westernmost_Longitude: -57.615 # Elevation: -4583.5 #--------------------------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: ODP 1063A Foley15 # First_Year: 3300000 # Last_Year: 2970000 # Time_Unit: cal yr BP # Core_Length: # Notes: #--------------------------------------- # Chronology: # Age models for most core sites contained in the PRISM planktic foram census data set are based upon combinations of faunal and floral biostratigraphy and calibrated events, paleomagnetic stratigraphy, and tephrachronology, utilizing stratigraphic data presented in DSDP and ODP Leg volumes and other articles. The following core sites differ in that age models were developed by tuning variations in oxygen isotope or magnetic susceptibility records to changes in insolation due to variations in the Earth's orbit. (607, 610, 659, 763, 806, 847, 852, 925, 1014, 1237, and 1239) #--------------------------------------- # Variables # Data variables follow that are preceded by "##" in columns one and two. # Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) ## SampleID Sample ID,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## CruiseID Cruise ID,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## CruiseSiteID Cruise Site,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## CoreHole Core Hole,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## CoreID Core ID,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## CoreSect Core Section,,,,,paleoceanography,,,C ## depth-core-top Top Depth in Core Section,,,cm,,paleoceanography,,,N ## depth-core-bot Bottom Depth in Core Section,,,cm,,paleoceanography,,,N ## depth-core-mid Mid Depth in Core Section,,,cm,,paleoceanography,,,N ## depth_m depth,,,m,,paleoceanography,,,N ## age_Ma age,,,Million years before present,,paleoceanography,,,N ## c.niti Candeina nitida,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## d.altisp Dentoglobigerina altispira,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## d.baroem Dentoglobigerina baroemoensis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.apert Globigerina apertura,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.bull Globigerina bulloides,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.calid Globigerina calida,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.decora Globigerina decoraperta,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.digit Globigerina digitata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.eamesi Globigerina eamesi,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.falco Globigerina falconensis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.incisa Globigerina incisa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.nepen Globigerina nepenthes,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.obesa Globigerina obesa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.praed Globigerina praedigitata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.pseudob Globigerina pseudobesa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.rubes Globigerina rubescens,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.umbil Globigerina umbilicata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.woodi Globigerina woodi,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## globirina.sp Globigerina spp.,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.aequi Globigerinella aequilateralis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.siphon Globigerinella siphonifera,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.glut Globigerinita glutinata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.congl Globigerinoides conglobatus,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.fistul Globigerinoides fistulosis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.obliq Globigerinoides obliquus,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.rub Globigerinoides ruber,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.sac Globigerinoides sacculifer,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.tenell Globigerinoides tenellus,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## globinoides.sp Globigerinoides spp.,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.conglom Globoquadrina conglomerata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.venez Globoquadrina venezuelana,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.sphericon Globorotalia (spheri)conomiozea,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.crass Globorotalia crassaformis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.crsula Globorotalia crassula,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.hirsu Globorotalia hirsuta,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.infla Globorotalia inflata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.limb Globorotalia limbata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.margar Globorotalia margaritae,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.menar Globorotalia menardii,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.multic Globorotalia multicamerata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.praep Globorotalia praepumilio,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.pumi Globorotalia pumilio,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.scit Globorotalia scitula,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.tosaen Globorotalia tosaensis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.trunc Globorotalia truncatulinoides,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.tumi Globorotalia tumida,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.ungul Globorotalia ungulata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## globorot.sp Globorotalia spp.,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## g.hexag Globorotaloides hexagona,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.acost Neogloboquadrina acostaensis,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.atlan-r Neogloboquadrina atlantica right coiling,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.atlan-l Neogloboquadrina atlantica left coiling,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.contin Neogloboquadrina continuosa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.duter Neogloboquadrina dutertrei,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.humer Neogloboquadrina humerosa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.pachy-r Neogloboquadrina pachyderma right coiling,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## n.pachy-l Neogloboquadrina pachyderma left coiling,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## neoqrina.sp Neogloboquadrina spp.,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## dupac Transitional between N. dutertrei and N. pachyderma,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## o.univer Orbulina universa,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## p.obliq Pulleniatina obliquiloculata,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## sphaeropsis.sp Sphaeroidinellopsis spp.,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## tia.quinq Turborotalia quinqueloba,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## forams-other Unidentified foraminifers,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N ## forams-b Benthic Foraminifers,,,count,,paleoceanography,,,N #------------------------ # Data # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing Value: NA SampleID CruiseID CruiseSiteID CoreHole CoreID CoreSect depth-core-top depth-core-bot depth-core-mid depth_m age_Ma c.niti d.altisp d.baroem g.apert g.bull g.calid g.decora g.digit g.eamesi g.falco g.incisa g.nepen g.obesa g.praed g.pseudob g.rubes g.umbil g.woodi globirina.sp g.aequi g.siphon g.glut g.congl g.fistul g.obliq g.rub g.sac g.tenell globinoides.sp g.conglom g.venez g.sphericon g.crass g.crsula g.hirsu g.infla g.limb g.margar 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