Biometric data illustrating species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene-Eocene environmental change (NERC Grant NE/H017291/1)

These data were produced within the objectives of the NERC grant (alongside collaborator Gibbs at NOC, Southampton) and predominantly comprise biometric data collected under light microscope at x1500 magnification from the coccolithophore taxon Coccolithus pelagicus, a heavily calcified taxon with a long fossil record. The data was collected as part of a collaborative research effort bringing together the modern and fossil consortia within the UK Ocean Acidification research programme. The data are from batch culture experiments on both modern sub-species of C. pelagicus and provide cell size, coccosphere size, coccolith size and number of coccoliths per cell. The same parameters were measured from C. pelagicus from North Atlantic field and sediment trap samples from inside and outside bloom conditions. Again, the same parameters were also measured from C. pelagicus from exceptionally well-preserved fossil material from several shelf and off-shelf marine locations including New Jersey, Tanzania, California and the Bay of Biscay.
 
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. Biometric data illustrating species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene-Eocene environmental change (NERC Grant NE/H017291/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6658d988-591d-01b9-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2018
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607273

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Mineral Resources
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Microfossils , Eocene , Acidification , Climate change , Palaeoecology
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  • NERC_DDC
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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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There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
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English English
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  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
BAY OF BISCAY [id=2001371]

 

Date ( Revision )
2010

Geographic identifier
CALIFORNIA [id=796300]

 

Date ( Creation )
1979

Geographic identifier
NEW JERSEY [id=774500]

 

Date ( Creation )
1979

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TANZANIA [id=685000]

 

Date ( Creation )
1979

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OGP / GEOG

 

Date ( Revision )
2005

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2011
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Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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false
Statement
Using light microscopy (LM) we imaged and measured 1173 fossil coccospheres from across the PETM interval. Coccosphere images were collected from Bass River onshore Ocean Drilling Program core, New Jersey, Lodo Gulch, central California, Kilwa, Tanzania Drilling Project Site 14, and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 401 in the Bay of Biscay. Biometric measurements were made on images taken under crossed polarised light at x1600 magnification, with a colour digital camera (Olympus DP71), using CellD software supported by Olympus. Three biometric parameters of the coccospheres (fossil and modern) were measured: 1. the number of coccoliths comprising each coccosphere (CN), 2. external coccosphere diameter including coccoliths (Ø), and, 3. coccolith size, which was measured from the tube cycle and converted to coccolith length (CL).

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2021-01-19
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