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Creator:: Mix, Alan C., Morey, Ann E., Pisias, Nicklas G., and Hostetler, Steven W.
Abstract:: The sensitivity of the tropics to climate change, particularly the amplitude of glacial‐to‐interglacial changes in sea surface temperature (SST), is one of the great controversies in paleoclimatology. Here we reassess faunal estimates of ice age SSTs, focusing on the problem of no‐analog planktonic foraminiferal assemblages in the equatorial oceans that...
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Creator:: Oppo, D. W., Raymo, M. E., Lohmann, G. P., Mix, Alan C., Wright, J. D., and Prell, W. L.
Abstract:: Benthic foraminiferal δ¹³C data from site 502 in the Caribbean Sea (sill depth 1800 m) indicate that throughout the past 2.6 m.y., glacial δ¹³C values in the middepth Atlantic were higher during glaciations than interglaciations. This is interpreted as indicating a greater proportion of Upper North Atlantic Deep Water (UNADW)...
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Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D. and Mix, Alan C.
Abstract:: We evaluate the reliability of statistical estimates of sea surface temperature (SST) derived from planktonic foraminiferal faunas using the modern analog method and the Imbrie‐Kipp method. Global core top faunas provide a calibration data set, while modern sediment trap faunas are used for validation. Linear regression of core top predicted...
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Creator:: Hagelberg, T. K., Pisias, Nicklas G., Shackleton, N. J., Mix, Alan C., and Harris, Sara E.
Abstract:: Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 138 was designed to study the late Neogene paleoceanography of the equatorial Pacific Ocean at time scales of thousands to millions of years. Crucial to this objective was the acquisition of continuous, high-resolution sedimentary records. It is well known that between successive advanced piston corer...
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Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D., O'Connell, Suzanne, and Mix, Alan C.
Abstract:: Sediment spectral reflectance measurements were generated aboard the JOIDES Resolution during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 162 shipboard operations. The large size of the raw data set (over 1.3 gigabytes) and limited computer hard disk storage space precluded detailed analysis of the data at sea, although broad band averages were used...
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Creator:: Mix, Alan C., Pisias, Nicklas G., Rugh, W., Wilson, J., Morey, A., and Hagelberg, T. K.
Abstract:: Benthic foraminifer and δ¹³C data from Site 849, on the west flank of the East Pacific Rise (0°11'N, 110°3l'W; 3851 m), give relatively continuous records of deep Pacific Ocean stable isotope variations between 0 and 5 Ma. The mean sample spacing is 4 k.y. Most analyses are from Cibicides wuellerstorfi>...
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Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D., Mix, Alan C., and Collier, Robert W.
Abstract:: Plankton tows from the northern California Current constrain biological and physical influences on living planktonic foraminifera. In this region, the dominant factors controlling the size and distribution of symbiotic and asymbiotic species are light and food. Food decreases offshore. Light, needed for symbiont photosynthesis, increases offshore as water turbidity lessens....
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Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D., Mix, Alan C., Hostetler, Steven W., and Kashgarian, Michaele
Abstract:: Multiple paleoceanographic proxies in a zonal transect across the California Current near 42°N record modern and last glacial maximum (LGM) thermal and nutrient gradients. The offshore thermal gradient, derived from foraminiferal species assemblages and oxygen isotope data, was similar at the LGM to that at present (warmer offshore), but average...
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Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D., Mix, Alan C., Harris, Sara E., and O'Connell, Suzanne
Abstract:: Diffuse reflectance records from Feni Drift in the North Atlantic faithfully record sediment percent carbonate. A high-resolution, reflectance-based age model for these sediments derived from an orbitally tuned age model for western equatorial Atlantic, Ceara Rise sediments was generated by spectral frequency mapping. Power spectra of the Feni Drift record...
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Creator:: Watkins, James M. and Mix, Alan C.
Abstract:: Statistical transfer functions relate living planktonic foraminiferal species of the central equatorial Pacific to measured sea surfce temperature, integrated primary productivity, and mixed-layer depth. The faunal estimates successfully reconstruct latitudinal patterns observed in both warm (El Niño, February-March 1992) and cool (La Niña, August-September 1992) seasonal settings. Predictions of mixed-layer...
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