8. CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF SITE 953, CANARY BASIN, NORTHEASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC 1

JoAnne Sblendorio-Levy 2 and Richard W. Howe 3

ABSTRACT

Site 953 in the Northeastern Atlantic, northeast of Gran Canaria, recovered an essentially complete Pleistocene to middle Miocene biostratigraphic record. Quantitative analysis of the calcareous nannofossils identified 57 calcareous nannofossil events. Forty-seven of these events have been tied, where possible, to the paleomagnetic record (Schmincke, Weaver, Firth, et al., 1995; B. Herr, pers. comm., 1996) and to the radiometric ages generated by Bogaard (Chap. 19, this volume) for this site.

1 Weaver, P.P.E., Schmincke, H.-U., Firth, J.V., and Duffield, W. (Eds.), 1998. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 157: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
2 6111 Yarwell, Houston, TX 77096, U.S.A. (Present address: Exxon Exploration Company, P.O. Box 4778, Houston, TX 77210-4778) jsblevy@hal-pc.org
3 Challenger Division for Seafloor Processes, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom (Present address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6907, Australia).