2. NEOGENE PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFER BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AT SITE 999, WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

SITE DESCRIPTION

METHODS

ZONAL CRITERIA

SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION RATES

PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFER DATUMS

TECTONIC AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

The "Pachyderma Interval"

Temperate-Latitude Globoconellids

Endemic Atlantic Menardellids

The "Atlantic Hiatus"

Caribbean Originations?

TAXONOMIC NOTES

REFERENCES

Appendix A

Appendix B

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