Leg 108

Initial Reports volume citation

Initial Reports chapter citations

Scientific Results volume citation

Scientific Results chapter citations

    Baldauf, J.G., and Pokras, E.M., 1989. Diatom biostratigraphy of Leg 108 sediments: eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 23–34. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.123.1989

    Bloemendal, J., King, J.W., Tauxe, L., and Valet, J.-P., 1989. Rock-magnetic stratigraphy of Leg 108 Sites 658, 659, 661, and 665, eastern tropical Atlantic. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 415–428. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.145.1989

    Bukry, D., 1989. Tropical Atlantic silicoflagellates from Leg 108 cores off Africa. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 487–489. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.124.1989

    Chepstow-Lusty, A., Backman, J., and Shackleton, N.J., 1989. Comparison of upper Pliocene Discoaster abundance variations from North Atlantic Sites 552, 607, 658, 659 and 662: further evidence for marine plankton responding to orbital forcing. In Ruddiman, W.F., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 121–141. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.122.1989

    Curry, W.B., and Miller, K.G., 1989. Oxygen and carbon isotopic variation in Pliocene benthic foraminifers of the equatorial Atlantic. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 157–166. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.134.1989

    Dupont, L.M., Beug, H.-J., Stalling, H., and Tiedemann, R., 1989. First palynological results from Site 658 at 21°N off northwest Africa: pollen as climate indicators. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 93–111. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.174.1989

    Faugères, J.C., Legigan, P., Maillet, N., and Latouche, C., 1989. Pelagic, turbiditic, and contouritic sequential deposits on the Cape Verde Plateau (Leg 108, Site 659, northwest Africa): sediment record during Neogene time. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 311–327. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.138.1989

    Faugères, J.C., Legigan, P., Maillet, N., Sarnthein, M., and Stein, R., 1989. Characteristics and distribution of Neogene turbidites at Site 657 (Leg 108, Cap Blanc continental rise, northwest Africa): variations in turbidite source and continental climate. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 329–348. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.137.1989

    Karlin, K., Ruddiman, W.F., and McIntyre, A., 1989. Comparison of late Pliocene and late Pleistocene sea-surface temperatures of the equatorial Atlantic divergence. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 187–210. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.164.1989

    Manivit, H., 1989. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Leg 108 sediments. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 35–69. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.126.1989

    Mienert, J., and Schultheiss, P., 1989. Physical properties of sedimentary environments in oceanic high (Site 658) and low (Site 659) productivity zones. In Ruddiman, W.F., and Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 397–406. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.149.1989

    Miller, K.G., Wright, J.D., and Brower, A.N., 1989. Oligocene to Miocene stable isotope stratigraphy and planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphy of the Sierra Leone Rise (DSDP Site 366 and ODP Site 667). In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 279–294. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.177.1989

    Olafsson, G., 1989. Quantitative calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of upper Oligocene to middle Miocene sediment from ODP Hole 667A and middle Miocene sediment from DSDP Site 574. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 9–22. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.121.1989

    Pokras, E.M., and Ruddiman, W.F., 1989. Evolution of south Saharan/Sahelian aridity based on freshwater diatoms (genus Melosira) and opal phytoliths: Sites 662 and 664. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 143–148. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.128.1989

    Poynter, J.G., Farrimond, P., Brassell, S.C., and Eglinton, G., 1989. Molecular stratigraphic study of sediments from Holes 658A and 660A, Leg 108. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 387–394. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.161.1989

    Ruddiman, W.F., and Janecek, T.R., 1989. Pliocene–Pleistocene biogenic and terrigenous fluxes at equatorial Atlantic Sites 662, 663, and 664. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 211–240. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.165.1989

    Ruddiman, W.F., Sarnthein, M., Backman, J., Baldauf, J.G., Curry, W., Dupont, L.M., Janecek, T., Pokras, E.M., Raymo, M.E., Stabell, B., Stein, R., and Tiedemann, R., 1989. Late Miocene to Pleistocene evolution of climate in Africa and the low-latitude Atlantic: overview of Leg 108 results. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 463–484. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.173.1989

    Sarnthein, M., and Tiedemann, R., 1989. Toward a high-resolution stable isotope stratigraphy of the last 3.4 million years: Sites 658 and 659 off northwest Africa. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 167–185. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.159.1989

    Schultheiss, P.J., and McPhail, S.D., 1989. An automated P-wave logger for recording fine-scale compressional wave velocity structures in sediments. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 407–413. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.157.1989

    Shipboard Scientific Party, 1989. Introduction. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 3–5. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.120.1989

    Stabell, B., 1989. Initial diatom record of Sites 657 and 658: on the history of upwelling and continental aridity. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 149–156. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.129.1989

    Stein, R., and Faugères, J.-C., 1989. Sedimentological and geochemical characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary sediments at Site 661 (eastern equatorial Atlantic) and their paleoenvironmental significance. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 297–309. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.135.1989

    Stein, R., ten Haven, H.L., Littke, R., Rullkötter, J., and Welte, D.H., 1989. Accumulation of marine and terrigenous organic carbon at upwelling Site 658 and nonupwelling Sites 657 and 659: implications for the reconstruction of paleoenvironments in the eastern subtropical Atlantic through late Cenozoic times. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 361–385. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.143.1989

    Tauxe, L., Valet, J.-P., and Bloemendal, J., 1989. Magnetostratigraphy of Leg 108 advanced hydraulic piston cores. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 429–439. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.154.1989

    Tiedemann, R., Sarnthein, M., and Stein, R., 1989. Climatic changes in the western Sahara: aeolo-marine sediment record of the last 8 million years (Sites 657–661). In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 241–277. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.169.1989

    ten Haven, H.L., Rullkötter, J., and Stein, R., 1989. Preliminary analysis of extractable lipids in sediments from the eastern North Atlantic (Leg 108): comparison of a coastal upwelling area (Site 658) with a nonupwelling area (Site 659). In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 351–360. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.142.1989

    Valet, J.-P., Tauxe, L., and Bloemendal, J., 1989. The Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal from two deep-sea cores of the eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 441–452. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.156.1989

    Weaver, P.P.E., Backman, J., Baldauf, J.G., Bloemendal, J., Manivit, H., Miller, K.G., Pokras, E.M., Raymo, M.E., Tauxe, L., Valet, J.-P., Chepstow-Lusty, A., and Olafsson, G., 1989. Biostratigraphic synthesis: Leg 108, eastern equatorial Atlantic. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 455–462. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.171.1989

    Weaver, P.P.E., and Raymo, M.E., 1989. Late Miocene to Holocene planktonic foraminifers from the equatorial Atlantic, Leg 108. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 71–91. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.130.1989

    Weinholz, P., and Lutze, G.F., 1989. The Stilostomella extinction. In Ruddiman, W., Sarnthein, M., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 108: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 113–117. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.108.176.1989

Journals/Books (notify us)

    Adkins, J., deMenocal, P., and Eshel, G., 2006. The "African humid period" and the record of marine upwelling from excess 230Th in Ocean Drilling Program Hole 658C. Paleoceanography, 21(4):PA4203. doi:10.1029/2005PA001200

    Channell, J.E.T., Mazaud, A., Sullivan, P., Turner, S., and Raymo, M.E., 2002. Geomagnetic excursions and paleointensities in the Matuyama Chron at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 983 and 984 (Iceland Basin). J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 107(B6):2114–2127. doi:10.1029/2001JB000491

    Cleaveland, L.C., and Herbert, T.D., 2007. Coherent obliquity band and heterogeneous precession band responses in early Pleistocene tropical sea surface temperatures. Paleoceanography, 22(2):PA2216. doi:10.1029/2006PA001370

    Cole, J.M., Goldstein, S.L., deMenocal, P.B., Hemming, S.R., and Grousset, F.E., 2009. Contrasting compositions of Saharan dust in the eastern Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation and African Humid Period. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 278(3–4):257–266. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.011

    Cortese, G., Gersonde, R., Hillenbrand, C.-D., and Kuhn, G., 2004. Opal sedimentation shifts in the world ocean over the last 15 Myr. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 224(3–4):509–527. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.035

    Cronin, T.M., Dowsett, H.J., Dwyer, G.S., Baker, P.A., and Chandler, M.A., 2005. Mid-Pliocene deep-sea bottom-water temperatures based on ostracode Mg/Ca ratios. Mar. Micropaleontol., 54(3–4):249–261. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.12.003

    Hooghiemstra, H., Lézine, A.-M., and Leroy, S.A.G., 2006. Late Quaternary palynology in marine sediments: a synthesis of the understanding of pollen distribution patterns in the NW African setting. Quat. Int., 148(1):29–44. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2005.11.005

    Jahn, B., Schneider, R.R., Müller, P.-J., Donner, B., and Röhl, U., 2005. Response of tropical African and east Atlantic climates to orbital forcing over the last 1.7 Ma. In Head, M.J., and Gibbard, P.L. (Eds), Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions: The Land-Ocean Evidence. Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 247(1):65–84. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.247.01.04

    Lund, S., Stoner, J.S., Channell, J.E.T., and Acton, G., 2006. A summary of Brunhes paleomagnetic field variability recorded in Ocean Drilling Program cores. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 156(3–4):194–204. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2005.10.009

    McClymont, E.L., Rosell-Melé, A., Giraudeau, J., Pierre, C., and Lloyd, J.M., 2005. Alkenone and coccolith records of the mid-Pleistocene in the south-east Atlantic: implications for the UK'37 index and South African climate. Quat. Sci. Rev., 24(14–15):1559–1572. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.06.024

    Miller, K.G., Wright, J.D., and Fairbanks, R.G., 1991. Unlocking the ice house: Oligocene–Miocene oxygen isotopes, eustasy, and margin erosion. J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 96(B4):6829–6848. doi:10.1029/90JB02015

    Mudelsee, M., and Schulz, M., 1997. The mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume build-up by 280 ka. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 151(1–2):117–123. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(97)00114-3

    Ni, Y., Foster, G.L., Bailey, T., Elliott, T., Schmidt, D.N., Pearson, P., Haley, B., and Coath, C., 2007. A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers. Paleoceanography, 22(3):PA3212. doi:10.1029/2006PA001337

    Poore, H.R., Samworth, R., White, N.J., Jones, S.M., and McCave, I.N., 2006. Neogene overflow of northern component water at the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 7(6):Q06010. doi:10.1029/2005GC001085

    Ravelo, A.C., Andreasen, D.H., Lyle, M., Olivarez Lyle, A., and Wara, M.W., 2004. Regional climate shifts caused by gradual global cooling in the Pliocene epoch. Nature (London, U. K.), 429(6989):263–267. doi:10.1038/nature02567

    Raymo, M.E., 1997. The timing of major climate terminations. Paleoceanography, 12(4):577–585. doi:10.1029/97PA01169

    Wehausen, R., and Brumsack, H.-J., 1999. Cyclic variations in the chemical composition of eastern Mediterranean Pliocene sediments: a key for understanding sapropel formation. Mar. Geol., 153(1–4):161–176. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00083-8

    Williams, M., Haywood, A.M., Hillenbrand, C.-D., and Wilkinson, I.P., 2005. Efficacy of 18O data from Pliocene planktonic foraminifer calcite for spatial sea surface temperature reconstruction: comparison with a fully coupled ocean–atmosphere GCM and fossil assemblage data for the mid-Pliocene. Geol. Mag., 142(4):399–417. doi:10.1017/S0016756805000828

    Winkler, A., Wolf-Welling, T.C.W., Stattegger, K., and Thiede, J., 2002. Clay mineral sedimentation in high northern latitude deep-sea basins since the Middle Miocene (ODP Leg 151, NAAG). Int. J. Earth Sci., 91(1):133–148. doi:10.1007/s005310100199

    Wolf, T.C.W., and Thiede, J., 1991. History of terrigenous sedimentation during the past 10 m.y. in the North Atlantic (ODP Legs 104 and 105 and DSDP Leg 81). Mar. Geol., 101(1–4):83–102. doi:10.1016/0025-3227(91)90064-B

    Wright, J.D., and Miller, K.G., 1996. Control of North Atlantic Deep Water circulation by the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Paleoceanography, 11(2):157–170. doi:10.1029/95PA03696

    Zhao, M., Dupont, L., Eglinton, G., and Teece, M., 2008. n-Alkane and pollen reconstruction of terrestrial climate and vegetation for N.W. Africa over the last 160 kyr. Org. Geochem., 34(1):131–143. doi:10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00142-0

Conferences (notify us)

    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2009

    Wojcieszek, D.E., and Dekens, P.S., 2009. Links between South Atlantic subtropical gyre and tropical upwelling region during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 90(52)(Suppl.):PP31C-1365 (Abstract) http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/waisfm09.html

    AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2010

    Wojcieszek, D.E., and Dekens, P.S., 2010. Pliocene-Pleistocene links between south Atlantic subtropical gyre and eastern equatorial Atlantic upwelling region. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 91(26)(Ocean Sci. Suppl.):PA25B-15. (Abstract) http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/waisos10.html

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