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Comparison of Foraminiferal, Coccolithophorid, and Radiolarian Paleotemperature Equations: Assemblage Coherency and Estimate Concordancy1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Barbara Molfino ,
Nilva G. Kipp  and
Joseph J. Morley
Barbara Molfino
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
Nilva G. Kipp
Affiliation:
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Joseph J. Morley
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
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Abstract

The Imbrie-Kipp method of paleotemperature estimation is rigorously tested by comparing Atlantic temperature equations independently derived from the microfossils of three biotic groups: the Foraminifera, Coccolithophorida, and Radiolaria. This method consists of two steps: factor analysis of the modern sea-bed data of the individual groups which resolves discrete biogeographic assemblages and regression analysis of the modern assemblage data with observed sea-surface temperature data to obtain paleotemperature equations. Assemblage biogeography shows a simple subdivision into warm (low latitude) and cold (high latitude) for all biotic groups. Between biotic groups there is greater similarity among high-latitude assemblages than low-latitude ones. Correlating the assemblage data with observed sea-surface temperatures to produce temperature distribution patterns shows differences of less than 2°C in their optimum and critical temperatures. Regression analysis produced accurate temperature equations for each biotic group, all with standard errors of estimate of less than or equal to 2°C. Multiple correlation coefficients were all greater than 0.970. Applying these equations to two multiple biotic data sets (the modern and ice-age sea-bed data) and comparing their temperature estimates using the standard error pooled, shows over 87% concordancy for both data sets. Unlike the modern data, the discordancy among temperature estimates of the ice-age data shows a distinct geographic distribution; its cause is believed to be oceanographic, a difference in the water-mass structure between the modern and ice-age ocean.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , May 1982 , pp. 279 - 313
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University of Washington

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Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory Contribution No. 3300.

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