Miocene Mediterranean Foraminiferal Abundance and Isotope Data: Readme file
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          World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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                 NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Miocene Mediterranean Foraminiferal Abundance and Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 3/2003 (Taxonomic references added in Description section, this file)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Dr. Elena Turco, University of Parma

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-070

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Turco, E., et al., 2001, 
Miocene Mediterranean Foraminiferal Abundance and Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-070. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: 
Turco, E., Hilgen, F.J., Lourens, L., Shackleton, N.J., and Zachariasse, W.J., 2001, 
Punctuated evolution of global climate cooling during the late Middle to 
early Late Miocene: high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal and 
oxygen isotope records from the Mediterranean, 
Paleocenography, v.16, No.4, 405-423. 

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Mediterranean Sea
PERIOD OF RECORD: Middle-Late Miocene, 12.12-9.78 MMYrBP

LIST OF FILES: readme_turco2001.txt (this file), 
appendix_a.xls (Microsoft Excel format), appendix_a.txt
(Tab-delimited text format)
fig1a.fh8, fig1b.fh8, fig1c.fh8, fig1d.fh8, fig1e.fh8
(Supplementary files, detailed data vs.depth, FreeHand format).
fig1a.gif, fig1b.gif, fig1c.gif, fig1d.gif, fig1e.gif
(Supplementary files, detailed data vs.depth, .gif format).


DESCRIPTION:
Foraminiferal abundance and oxygen isotope data from the Miocene
Monte Gibliscemi section, Sicily, Italy.

Bolboforma indicates a group of calcareous microfossils belonging to Protophyta 
(Spiegler and Rogl, 1992. Bolboforma (Protophyta, incertae sedis) im Oligozan 
und Miozan de Mediterran und der Zentralen Paratethys. 
Ann Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 94, 59-95)

N. 4 chambered type can be included in the morphological variability of 
N. acostaensis (for more details about taxonomy, see Hilgen et al. 2000. 
Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical calibration of the Serravallian/
Tortonian boundary section at Monte Gibliscemi (Sicily, Italy), 
Marine Micropaleontology, 28, 181-211).