Eco-biostratigraphic advances on late Quaternary geochronology and palaeoclimate: the marginal Gulf of Mexico analogue

Assimina Antonarakou, George Kontakiotis, Aristomenis P. Karageorgis, Eva Besiou, Stergios Zarkogiannis, Hara Drinia, Graham P. Mortyn, Eftymis Tripsanas

Abstract


This study combines high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal eco-biostratigraphy and palaeoclimatic data from the high-sedimentation-rate core JPC-26 from the northwestern margin of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The eco-biozones recognized (GOMPFE1-12) being correlated with published Mg/Ca-based sea surface temperatures. This updated palaeoclimatic and stratigraphic reference record facilitates correlations with the Greenland ice core events and their climatic relationships, and also provides a solid stratigraphic framework for correlations with other palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic records in the circum-GOM/Caribbean region. This multidisciplinary approach underlines the utility of supporting conventional dating methodologies with different constraints, and further reveals a powerful tool for reliably correlating marine records between comparable deep-sea marginal settings and coeval sequences of this region


Keywords


Integrated stratigraphy; Late Glacial-Holocene transition; planktonic foraminiferal eco-bioevents; deep-sea sedimentary correlations; climate variability; palaeoceanography

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1457

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