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Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene paleoceanography of the northwestern Ross Sea inferred from sediment core geochemistry and micropaleontology at Hallett Ridge
Romana Melis
Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste,
Via E. Weiss 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Lucilla Capotondi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche–Istituto di Scienze Marine
(CNR-ISMAR), Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Fiorenza Torricella
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via
Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Patrizia Ferretti
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica,
Università Ca' Foscari, Via Torino 155, Mestre, 30172 Venice, Italy
Andrea Geniram
Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste,
Via E. Weiss 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Jong Kuk Hong
Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, South Korea
Gerhard Kuhn
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar- und
Meeresforschung, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
Boo-Keun Khim
Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University, Busan,
46241, South Korea
Sookwan Kim
Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, South Korea
Elisa Malinverno
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Terra, Università
di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milan, Italy
Kyu Cheul Yoo
Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 21990, South Korea
Ester Colizza
Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste,
Via E. Weiss 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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The challenge between benthic foraminifera and ostracoda is open: which is the most reliable microfossil group for precise palaeoenvironmental reconstructions? Results from a lagoonal succession of the Romagna coast (Italy) reveal that the winner is ostracoda, due to their higher abundance, higher differentiation, and precise relationships between species and ecological parameters. Nevertheless, palaeoenvironmental stress and additional details are provided by benthic foraminifera.
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Short summary
Integrated micropaleontological (planktic and benthic foraminifera, diatoms, and silicoflagellates) analysis, together with textural and geochemical results of a deep-sea core from the Hallett Ridge (northwestern Ross Sea), provides new data for late Quaternary (23–2 ka) paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic reconstructions of this region. Results allow us to identify three time intervals: the glacial–deglacial transition, the deglacial period, and the interglacial period.
Integrated micropaleontological (planktic and benthic foraminifera, diatoms, and...
