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doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.323.201.2013

Data report: late Pliocene to early Quaternary calcareous nannofossils, IODP Expedition 323 Site U1341, Bering Sea1

Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo2 and José-Abel Flores3

Abstract

We performed semiquantitative analyses of late Pliocene–early Quaternary calcareous nannofossil assemblages in samples from Hole U1341B, recovered on the Bowers submarine ridge during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 323 to the Bering Sea (July–September 2009). The record is characterized by very low abundances and frequent barren intervals, which have hampered our attempts of locating standard and high-latitude calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphic events. However, we have narrowed a horizon in which noted changes in the assemblage composition can be correlated to other records in the North Pacific.

1 Colmenero-Hidalgo, E., and Flores, J.-A., 2013. Data report: late Pliocene to early Quaternary calcareous nannofossils, IODP Expedition 323 Site U1341, Bering Sea. In Takahashi, K., Ravelo, A.C., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 323 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 323: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.323.201.2013

2 Departamento de Geografía y Geología, Universidad de León, 24071 León, Spain. e.colmenero@unileon.es

3 Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.

Initial receipt: 31 July 2012
Acceptance: 10 May 2013
Publication: 21 June 2013
MS 323-201