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Table T6. Planktonic foraminiferal summary, Hole U1354A. (See table notes.)

Core, section,
interval (cm)
Top depth
CSF-A (m)
Interpreted
age
Nannofossil
zone
NZ stage
correlation
NZ stage Age
(Ma)
Planktonic
foraminifers
(%)
Oceanicity Key species and comments
317-U1354A-
1H-1, 0 0.00 Holocene NN21 Haweran to upper Castlecliffian
(Wq–uWc)
Wq–uWo 0–4.3 53 Extraneritic Globoconella inflata; mudline sample, Holocene inferred, not identified biostratigraphically
1H-CC 3.78 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 1 Inner neritic Globoconella inflata; [base NN21B, <0.08 Ma]
2H-CC 12.26 Pleistocene Wq 0–0.34 3 [Haweran benthic Loxostomum karrerianum; top NN21A, >0.08 Ma]
3H-CC 13.99     0 ND, no planktonics
4H-CC 14.30 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 2  
5H-CC 14.69 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 43 Extraneritic  
6H-CC 24.25     1 Inner neritic ND
7H-CC 31.33 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 1 [Nannofossil, LO Emiliania huxleyi, base NN21, 0.29 Ma]
8H-CC 38.14 NN20 uWc ~0.5–1.1 51 Extraneritic Globoconella cf. puncticuloides (HO at Site U1352 = ~0.5 Ma), Truncorotalia truncatulinoides (1S:0D), Globoconella inflata
9H-CC 53.76 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 15 Outer shelf Globoconella inflata
10H-CC 46.88 Wq–uWo 0–1.1 22 Truncorotalia truncatulinoides (4S:0D), Globoconella inflata
11H-CC 60.14 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 12 Inner neritic Globoconella inflata, Globigerinella aequilateralis; [nannofossil, HO Pseudoemiliania lacunosa, 0.44 Ma]
12H-CC 64.90 NN19 Castlecliffian
(Wc)
Wq–uWo 0–4.3 5 Globoconella inflata
13H-CC 73.44     2 ND
14H-CC 75.41 Wq–uWo 0–4.3 2 Globoconella inflata
15H-CC 76.20     1 ND
17H-CC 80.16     1 ND; [nannofossils >1.26 Ma; unconformity, ~0.3 m.y. missing between Samples 15H-CC and 17H-CC]
18H-CC 80.33 Wc–uWo 0.34–4.3 6 Globoconella inflata; [benthic Siphotextularia wairoana]
19H-CC 85.38 Wc–uWo >0.34 1 ND; [benthic Siphotextularia wairoana; nannofossil, HO Helicosphaera sellii, 1.34 Ma]

Notes: ND = not determined. HO = highest occurrence. S = sinistral, D = dextral. For New Zealand (NZ) stage abbreviations, see Figure F5 in the "Methods" chapter. This table is also available in ASCII.

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