Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Site 953, Canary Basin, northeastern North Atlantic

Abstract

Site 953 in the Northeastern Atlantic, northeast of Gran Canaria, recovered an essentially complete Pleistocene to middle Miocene biostratigraphic record. Quantitative analysis of the calcareous nannofossils identified 57 calcareous nannofossil events. Forty-seven of these events have been tied, where possible, to the paleomagnetic record (Schmincke, Weaver, Firth, et al., 1995; B. Herr, pers. comm., 1996) and to the radiometric ages generated by Bogaard (Chap. 19, this volume) for this site.