Pliocene Planktic Foraminiferal Census Data from 19 Core Sites in the North Atlantic Region

By PRISM Project Members

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-669
Version 1.0

The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a long-term study of the climatic and oceanographic conditions of the Pliocene known as PRISM (Pliocene Research, Interpretation, and Synoptic Mapping). One of the major elements of the study involves the use of quantitative composition of planktic foraminifer assemblages to estimate sea-surface temperatures and identify major oceanographic boundaries and water masses (Dowsett, 1991; Dowsettand Poore, 1991; Dowsett et al., 1992; Dowsett et al., 1994). We have analyzed more than 900 samples from 19 core sites in the North Atlantic Basin (Fig. 1) resulting in a large volume of raw census data. These data are presented here together to facilitate comparison of North Atlantic faunal assemblages.

This collection of files reproduces, in digital form, USGS Open File Report 96-669. The file "of96-669.pdf" contains the text of the report including an introduction to the study, locality information, methods, taxonomic information and references. The remaining files are tables containing census data from individual core sites.

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Table 2 DSDP 366A
Table 3 DSDP 396A
Table 4 DSDP 410
Table 5 DSDP 502A
Table 6 DSDP 541
Table 7 DSDP 546
Table 8 DSDP 548
Table 9 DSDP 552A
Table 10 DSDP 603C
Table 11 DSDP 606

Table 12 DSDP 607
Table 13 ODP 608
Table 14 ODP 609B
Table 15 ODP 610A
Table 16 ODP 646B
Table 17 ODP 659A
Table 18 ODP 661A
Table 19 ODP 667A
Table 20 ODP 672

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Pliocene Planktic Foraminiferal Census Data from 19 Core Sites in the North Atlantic Region

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-669 Version 1.0

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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-669
Version 1.0