Bice, Karen L.; Norris, Richard D. (2007): Data report; stable isotope ratios of foraminifers from ODP Leg 207, sites 1257, 1258, and 1260, and a cleaning procedure for foraminifers in organic-rich shales. Texas A&M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, In: Mosher, David C., Erbacher, Jochen, Malone, Mitchell J., Berti, Debora, Bice, Karen L., Bostock, Helen, Brumsack, Hans-Juergen, Danelian, Taniel, Forster, Astrid, Glatz, Christine, Heidersdorf, Felix, Henderiks, Jorijntje, Janecek, Thomas R., Junium, Christopher, Le Callonnec, Laurence, MacLeod, Kenneth G., Meyers, Philip A., Mutterlose, H. Joerg, Nishi, Hiroshi, Norris, Richard D., Ogg, James G., O'Regan, A. Matthew, Rea, Brice, Sexton, Philip, Sturt, Helen, Suganuma, Yusuke, Thurow, Juergen W., Wilson, Paul A., Wise, Sherwood W., Jr., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; scientific results; Demerara Rise; equatorial Cretaceous and Paleogene paleoceanographic transect, western Atlantic; covering Leg 207 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution; Bridgetown, Barbados, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; sites 1257-1261; 11 January-6 March 2003, 207, georefid:2007-087725

Abstract:
We report oxygen and carbon stable isotope analyses of foraminifers, primarily planktonic, sampled at low resolution in the Cretaceous and Paleogene sections from Sites 1257, 1258, and 1260. Data from two samples from Site 1259 are also reported. The very low resolution of the data only allows us to detect climate-driven isotopic events on the timescale of more than 500 k.y. A several million-year-long interval of overall increase in planktonic delta (super 18) O is seen in the Cenomanian at Site 1260. Before and after this interval, foraminifers from Cenomanian and Turonian black shales have delta (super 18) O values in the range -4.2 per mil to -5.0 per mil, suggestive of upper ocean temperatures higher than modern tropical values. The delta (super 18) O values of upper ocean dwelling Paleogene planktonics exhibit a long-term increase from the early Eocene to the middle Eocene. During shipboard and postcruise processing, it proved difficult to extract well-preserved foraminifer tests from black shales by conventional techniques. Here, we report results of a test of procedures for cleaning foraminifers in Cretaceous organic-rich mudstone sediments using various combinations of soaking in bleach, Calgon/hydrogen peroxide, or Cascade, accompanied by drying, repeat soaking, or sonication. A procedure that used 100% bleach, no detergent, and no sonication yielded the largest number of clean, whole individual foraminifers with the shortest preparation time. We found no significant difference in delta (super 18) O or delta (super 13) C values among sets of multiple samples of the planktonic foraminifer Whiteinella baltica extracted following each cleaning procedure.
Coverage:
West: -54.4400 East: -54.1100 North: 9.2800 South: 9.0200
Relations:
Expedition: 207
Site: 207-1257
Site: 207-1258
Site: 207-1260
Supplemental Information:
Includes appendices
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Provider: SEDIS Publication Catalogue
Data set link: http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=10.2973/odp.proc.sr.207.104.2005 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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