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Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of foraminifera in two cores from the Bannock Basin area, eastern Mediterranean |
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| Authors: | Eric Olausson |
| Institution: | Institute of Paleo-oceanography, Hultvägen 9, S-440 06, Gråbo, Sweden |
| Abstract: | Two cores from the Bannock Basin in the eastern Mediterranean have been analysed for δ180 and the δ13C in planktonic foraminifera. One core (02-PC) was extracted from the anoxic brine, the other (08-GC) from a plateau east of the brine. The absence of sapropelic muds in Core 08-GC from the two Holsteinian euxinic cycles, together with the presence of isotopic spikes, suggests that the plateau has risen during the last ca. 200,000 years by ca. 2.5 mm/yr. The δ180 amplitude of Globigerinoides ruber in eastern Mediterranean cores is only ca. 0.5%. larger than for this species in North Atlantic cores. This suggests that the surface oxygen isotopic composition of both bodies of water followed each other fairly closely during the Late Pleistocene, except during the stagnant phases. |
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