Coccolith assemblages, cell-size and geometry measurements for 4 ODP/DSDP sites (594, 982, 999, 1090) of 2 age brackets (Pleistocene and Pliocene)

Coccolith abundance and morphometric data for 4 ODP/DSDP sites (594, 982, 999, 1090) of 2 age brackets (Pleistocene and Pliocene) that have been run through the classification software SYRACO (SYstème de Reconnaissance Automatique de COccolithes. Full assemblage counts as well as morphological measurements for each specimen (area, feret max, feret min, thickness and mass). The images these measurements were completed on are also included. Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 982 (57°30.992'N, 15°52.001'W; 1134m water depth) located in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Rockall Plateau. Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1090 (42°54.5 ′ S, 8°54.0 ′ E; 3702m water depth) located in the South Atlantic Ocean on the southern flank of the Agulhas Ridge. Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 594 (45°31.41'S; 174°56.88'E; 1204m water depth) located on the southern margin of Chatham Rise, to the east of the South Island of New Zealand. ODP Site 999 (12°44'N, 78°44'W) located on the Kogi Rise in the Colombian Basin of the southwestern Caribbean Sea

Date (Creation): 2026-05-19

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608713

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Birmingham	Tom Dunkley Jones	not available	Originator
University of Birmingham	Emma Hanson	not available	Originator
University of Birmingham	Morgan Gall	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Fossil assemblage
Coccolith
Pliocene
Pleistocene

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Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Language: English

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Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2025-01-01

End date: 2026-12-31

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

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Name	Version
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx)
Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file (.csv)
Rich Text Format (RTF) document (.rtf)
TIFF image (.tif, .tiff)

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item192238	Data

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.5285/f10b18af-7057-4431-a189-829fd1d20870	Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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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: Slides were prepared following the settling technique of Flores & Sierro (1997). 150 fields of view (FOV) were captured and analysed for each sample, using SYRACO (SYstÃ¨me de Reconnaissance Automatique de Coccolithes) software at the European Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Sciences (CEREGE, France). SYRACO uses neural network algorithms to classify coccoliths and to complete morphometric measurements, in particular mass, thickness and length, from segmented images, allowing a quick through flow of identification and a standardised classification of coccolith assemblages.