49d19acc-aad6-0d57-e054-002128a47908
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dataset
British Geological Survey
+44 115 936 3100
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
enquiries@bgs.ac.uk
pointOfContact
2024-03-27
UK GEMINI
2.3
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607117
Nannofossil assemblage data IODP expedition U359 (NERC grant NE/N014049/1)
2016-09-30
creation
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607117
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.
Jeremy Young
University College London
Earth Sciences
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
not available
pointOfContact
Professor Paul Bown
University College London
Earth Sciences
Kathleen Lonsdale
London
WC1E 6BT
not available
principalInvestigator
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Geology
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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NGDC Deposited Data
Microfossils
Fossil assemblage
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
2022
revision
NGDC Deposited Data
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NERC_DDC
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no limitations
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English
geoscientificInformation
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus
1979
creation
MALDIVES [id=922500]
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3
2009
revision
MDV
ISO 3166_1 alpha-2
2009
revision
MV
72.9000
73.1000
4.7500
4.9300
2016-02-01
2016-09-30
NERC grant NE/N014049/1
http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/maldives_monsoon.html
information
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item73709
download
dataset
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
2011
publication
See the referenced specification
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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
2010-12-08
publication
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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No lineage information provided.