Archive · collection · 1994
The late Pliocene pollen record of ODP Site 108-658 off Cape Blanc, Atlantic Ocean
Listed in PANGAEA and DataCite — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.1594/pangaea.705513
A 200 m long marine pollen record from ODP Site 658 (21°N, 19°W) reveals cyclic fluctuations in vegetation and continental climate in northwestern Africa from 3.7 to 1.7 Ma.
Description
These cycles parallel oxygen isotope stages. Prior to 3.5 Ma, the distribution of tropical forests and mangrove swamps reached Cape Blanc, 5°N of the present distribution.
Between 3.5 and 2.6 Ma, forests occurred at this latitude during irregular intervals and nearly disappeared afterwards. Likewise, a Saharan paleoriver flowed continuously until isotope Stage 134 (3.35 Ma). When river discharge ceased, wind transport of pollen grains prevailed over fluvial transport.
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Pollen indicators of trade winds gradually increased between 3.3 and 2.5 Ma. A strong aridification of the climate of northwestern Africa occurred during isotope Stage 130 (3.26 Ma). Afterwards, humid conditions reestablised followed by another aridification around 2.7 Ma.
Repetitive latitudinal shifts of vegetation zones ranging from wooded savanna to desert flora dominated for the first time between between 2.6 and 2.4 Ma as a response to the glacial stages 104, 100 and 98. Although climatic conditions, recorded in the Pliocene, were not as dry as those of the middle and Late Pleistocene, latitudinal vegetation shifts near the end of the Pliocene resembled those of the interglacial-glacial cycles of the Brunhes chron.
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- Repository landing page doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.705513 ↗
landing page · from DataCite
- DOI doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.705513 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from PANGAEA
Documentation and papers
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode ↗
license · from DataCite
- IsSupplementTo 10.1016/0031-0182(94)90181-3 doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(94)90181-3 ↗
publication · from DataCite
Catalogue records · 3
- OAI-PMH record ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=o… ↗
metadata API · from PANGAEA
- DataCite API api.datacite.org/dois/10.1594/pangaea.705513 ↗
metadata API · from DataCite
- DataCite Commons commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.705513 ↗
catalogue entry · from DataCite
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANGAEA | oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.705513 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DataCite | 10.1594/pangaea.705513 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · DataCite | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/rights |
| publication_date | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |