Pliocene and Pleistocene Foraminifera Populations in Arctic Ocean Sediment Cores.

Abstract

The Foraminifera populations and distributions of five deep sea sediment cores recovered from the Arctic Ocean yielded data on 126 species of Foraminifera. Abundance data and species appearance and mortality data across geomagnetic reversal intervals in the cores show no positive correlation. Arctic Ocean Foraminifera apparently do not respond in any significant way to magnetic reversals of the earth's magnetic field. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0770824

Entities

People

  • John A. Larson

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Oceans
  • Sediments

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Regression Analysis.