Three sites, drilled during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 167, were chosen for detailed late Pleistocene paleoceanographic studies of intermediate water along the California margin. These sites are Site 1011 (Animal Basin, 31°17´N, 117°38´W, 2033 m water depth, 1600 m sill depth), Site 1012 (East Cortez Basin, 32°17´N, 118°23´W, 1783 m water depth, 1415 m sill depth), and Site 1018 (Guide Seamount, 36°59´N, 123°17´W, 2476 m water depth; Fig. 1). Here we present carbon and oxygen isotopic measurements of benthic foraminifers from these three sites. We made 135 measurements from Site 1011, 387 measurements from Site 1012, and 231 measurements from Site 1018. This data report includes an explanation of the methods used to generate these isotopic records and the age models for each site. Detailed paleoceanographic interpretations of the isotopic records are currently under way.
1Lyle, M., Koizumi, I., Richter, C., and Moore, T.C., Jr. (Eds.), 2000. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results,167 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/167_SR/167sr.htm>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD]
2Earth Sciences Department, 1156 High Street, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA. Correspondence author: andreasn@earthsci.ucsc.edu
3Institute of Marine Sciences, 1156 High Street, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA.
Date of
initial receipt: 4 November 1998
Date of acceptance: 10 June 1999
Ms 167SR-225