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Nannofossil assemblage data IODP expedition U359 (NERC grant NE/N014049/1)

Nannofossil assemblage data IODP expedition U359 produced from NERC Grant NE/N014049/1. Data collected from the Maldives, Indian Ocean. NERC grant award abstract: IOPD Expedition 359, Sea Level, Currents, and Monsoon Evolution in the Indian Ocean will be investigating the Maldives Ridge which stretches southward through the Indian Ocean as a double chain of coral atolls. These atolls lie along a volcanic ridge which formed over a mantle hotspot as the Indian plate moved northwards. As the ridge cooled it subsided to be replaced at the surface by the string of atolls and between them deeper troughs.Within these troughs vast thicknesses of carbonate sediments derived from the ridge have built up intermixed with open ocean sediments. These sediments provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationships between open ocean planktonic carbonates and shallow marine carbonates - which normally are difficult to compare. This project seeks to exploit this opportunity to see whether there are any consistent correlations between changes in the pelagic carbonate producing coccolithophores and the shallow marine carbonate system. If such correlations do occur it will provide strong evidence that abiotic factors such as temperature and sea water chemistry have strong influences on large scale evolution of these systems. Conversely if no such linkages can be observed it will cal into question the degree to which changes in for instance coccolithophore abundance or calcification are interpreted as being caused by abiotic factors. The great thicknesses of the successions also mean that intervals of abrupt change in plankton assemblages can be studied at higher resolution than is normally possible. This will provide the opportunity to test if such changes are caused by environmental events. The project will specifically focus on size variation in the dominant group of coccolithophores the reiticulofenestrids. This group shows a long term size reduction but this is formed of series of abrupt size reduction events separated by extended intervals of size increase. This will be the first time the set of size reduction events from the middle Miocene to the recent have been studied systematically in one place as well as testing to see if they correlate with change in environmental proxies or changes in the shallow marine carbonate system.

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Date (Creation)
2016-09-30
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607117
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University College London

Jeremy Young

not available

Point of contact

University College London

Professor Paul Bown

not available

Principal investigator
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Microfossils

  • Fossil assemblage

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  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

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The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
MALDIVES [id=922500]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier
MDV

ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier
MV

ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

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Begin date
2016-02-01
End date
2016-09-30
Supplemental Information

NERC grant NE/N014049/1

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/maldives_monsoon.html
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item73709
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

No lineage information provided.

Metadata

File identifier
49d19acc-aad6-0d57-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-06
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

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Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607117

 
 

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