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This dataset collects sea surface temperature data generated through alkenone analysis of late Pliocene sediments collected from cores and field localities by USGS PRISM project members. Alkenone analysis of sample material was performed by Timothy Herbert at Brown University.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Alkenone,
Arctic Ocean,
Atlantic Ocean,
Climatology,
Greenland Sea, All tags...
Nansemond River,
Ocean records,
Pacific Ocean,
Paleoclimate,
Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction,
South China sea,
Suffolk,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Virginia, Fewer tags
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Alkenone data were extracted from core and outcrop samples from the Miocene and Pliocene of the mid Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Uk'37 index is used to estimate temperature and total C37 is used to estimate productivity. Planktonic foraminifer abundance's are provided for two cores.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Calvert County,
Climatology,
Ecology,
Isle of Wight County,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Stratigraphy,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
geochemistry,
paleoenvironment,
stratigraphy, Fewer tags
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