Paleoceanographic proxy data sets from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary interval of ODP Site 1218, eastern Equatorial Pacific

Helen Coxall

Paleoceanographic proxy records from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1218 in the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP): (1) stable isotope (δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C) records measured on epifaunal benthic foraminifera (Cibicidoides spp.); (2) δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C records measured on Oridorsalis umbonatus, a shallow infaunal species; and (3) a record of benthic foraminifera accumulation rate (BFAR). Sample ages are between 30.9 and 35.3 Ma.

Citation

Helen Coxall (2015) Paleoceanographic proxy data sets from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary interval of ODP Site 1218, eastern Equatorial Pacific. Dataset version 1. Bolin Centre Database. https://doi.org/10.17043/coxall-2015-odp-1218-1

References

Coxall, H. K. and Wilson, P. A. 2011 Early Oligocene glaciation and productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific; insights into global carbon cycling. Paleoceanography 26, PA2221, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002021

Coxall, H. K., Wilson, P. A., Pälike, H., Lear, C. H., and Backman, J., 2005. Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean. Nature 433 (7021), 53–57, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03135

Moore, J., T.C., Wade, B. S., Westerhold, T., Erhardt, A. M., Coxall, H. K., Baldauf, J. G., and Wagner, T., 2014. Equatorial Pacific Productivity Changes near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary. Paleoceanography, 29 (9), 825–844, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014PA002656

Comments

The Site 1218 Eocene-Oligocene benthic foraminifera stable isotope data sets represent an expansion of the data set presented by Coxall et al. (2005). The Site 1218 Eocene-Oligocene benthic foraminifera accumulation rate (BFAR) data set was originally presented in Coxall and Wilson (2011). The BFAR data were corrected (standardized to bulk weight of sample) in a subsequent paper Moore et al. (2014).