The transition from the late Oligocene warm period into the early Miocene was marked by a series of rapid and brief episodes of cryospheric expansion and global cooling. We analyzed benthic foraminifers from nannofossil oozes recovered at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1218 to construct a stable isotope stratigraphy for the deep Pacific.
1Tripati, A., Elderfield, H., Booth, L., Zachos, J., and Ferretti, P., 2006. Data report: High-resolution benthic foraminiferal stable isotope stratigraphy across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary at Site 1218. In Wilson, P.A., Lyle, M., and Firth, J.V. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results,199: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–13. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.199.221.2006
2Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom. Correspondence author: atri02@esc.cam.ac.uk
3Board of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA.
Initial receipt: 8 May 2004
Acceptance: 27 October 2005
Web publication: 4 March 2006
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