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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