Diatoms from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 184 Site 1143 in the southern South China Sea were analyzed for this paper. We found that diatoms are barren or scarce from 27.94 to 304.04 meters below seafloor. The intervals with age-diagnostic species indicate a middle Miocene age from 472.18 to 469.98 mcd, a late Miocene age or younger at 389.42 mcd, and a late Pliocene to Holocene age from 26.7 to 0.0 mcd.
1Lu, J., Chen, M., Wang, R., and Pushkar, V.S., 2004. Data report: Diatom records of ODP Site 1143 in the southern South China Sea. In Prell, W.L., Wang, P., Blum, P., Rea, D.K., and Clemens, S.C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 184 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/184_SR/212/212.htm>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD]
2South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, The China Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China. Correspondence author: jlu@scsio.ac.cn
3Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, People's Republic of China.
4Pacific Institute of Geography FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
Initial receipt: 12 September 2001
Acceptance: 16 July 2003
Web publication:
5 July 2004
Ms 184SR-212