Paleoceanographic implications of stable-isotope data from upper Miocene-lower Pliocene sediments from the southeast Atlantic ( Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 519).

Abstract

A stable-isotope stratigraphy was established for planktonic and benthic foraminifers from upper Miocene-lower Pliocene pelagic sediments from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. A correlation of stable-isotope and biostratigraphic data with magnetostratigraphic age is discussed. The timing of these paleoceanographic events is correlated with the onset and termination of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean Sea.-from Authors