Abstract
The oxygen isotopic compositions of tests of Foraminifera are quantitatively related to global ice volume1,2 and local temperature and salinity conditions in which the Foraminifera grew3–8. Thus, a well-preserved sample of deep-sea core contains information about sea-surface temperature (shallow-dwelling planktonic Foraminifera), structure of the thermocline (deeper-dwelling planktonic Foraminifera), and bottom water temperature (benthic Foraminifera), and the global ice volume effect is also superimposed. The progress which has been made in calibration of core–top isotopic data to modern oceanographic data5,7,8, has led us to test state-of-the-art core–top methodology and calibration on a late Miocene time slice (6.0 ± 0.5 Myr BP) of the Atlantic Ocean. Samples studied can be related to either uppermost Zone NN11 or lowermost NN12 of Martini9 and uppermost Zone N17 of Blow10.
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Matthews, R., Curry, W., Lohmann, K. et al. Late Miocene palaeo-oceanography of the Atlantic: oxygen isotope data on planktonic and benthic Foraminifera. Nature 283, 555–557 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/283555a0
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