Pleistocene-Pliocene strontium-isotope ratios of ODP Site 107-653 (Table 1)

Strontium isotopic determinations were made on samples from the Pliocene-Pleistocene sequence recovered at ODP Hole 653A, the proposed "deep-sea type section" for the Mediterranean region. Biostratigraphic correlations can be combined with the patterns of variations in the 87Sr/86Sr values to delineate the following: (1) the earliest Pliocene (MP11 to basal MP12 zones) is distinguished by fluctuations in the ratio, probably related to the unstable paleoceanographic conditions following the Zanclean flooding and initial in-filling of the Mediterranean after the Messinian desiccation, (2) during most of the Pliocene between approximately 4.5 and 2.4 Ma (MP12 to MP15 zones) the 87Sr/86Sr values remain relatively constant, producing a plateau in the strontium isotope-depth curve for this period, and (3) beginning at approximately 2.4 Ma (across the MP15/MP16 boundary) and continuing into the latest Pleistocene, the 7Sr/86Sr values increase significantly but show fluctuations that have both positive and negative slopes. The presence of a plateau in the curve generated for the Mediterranean type section duplicates in greater detail the late Neogene results reported by DePaolo (1986, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<103:DROTNS>2.0.CO;2). The virtual lack of change in the ratio between 4.5 and 2.4 Ma essentially eliminates strontium isotopes as a high-resolution correlation method for this period. The fluctuations in the ratio beginning at 2.4 Ma may be a reflection of major climatic changes occurring in the latest Pliocene-Pleistocene. The relationship between glacial-interglacial cycles and seawater 87Sr/86Sr values suggested by DePaolo (1986) and Capo and DePaolo (1987) is uncertain but should be tested as significant increases and decreases in 87Sr/86Sr of seawater have apparently occurred since 2.4 Ma.

Sea surface temperature and stable isotopes from 9 cores of the Northeastern Atlantic

Temporal and spatial patterns in eastern North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures (SST) were reconstructed for marine isotope stage (MIS) 11c using a submeridional transect of five sediment cores. The SST reconstructions are based on planktic foraminiferal abundances and alkenone indices, and are supported by benthic and planktic stable isotope measurements, as well as by ice-rafted debris content in polar and middle latitudes. Additionally, the larger-scale dynamics of the precipitation regime over northern Africa and the western Mediterranean region was evaluated from iron concentrations in marine sediments off NW Africa and planktic d13C in combination with analysis of planktic foraminiferal abundances down to the species level in the Mediterranean Sea. Compared to the modern situation, it is revealed that during entire MIS 11c sensu stricto (ss), i.e., between 420 and 398 ka according to our age models, a cold SST anomaly in the Nordic seas co-existed with a warm SST anomaly in the middle latitudes and the subtropics, resulting in steeper meridional SST gradients than during the Holocene. Such a SST pattern correlates well with a prevalence of a negative mode of the modern North Atlantic Oscillation. We suggest that our scenario might partly explain the longer duration of wet conditions in the northern Africa during MIS 11c compared to the Holocene.

Review of reoffered timber sale appeals and fire salvage efforts in Oregon [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, April 13, 1988.

"Serial no. 100-87."

Timber survey manual. District 5.

"O.M. Evans, forest examiner."

Forestry publication.

No. 53. Survey of forest plantations of Ottawa, Sandusky, and Seneca Counties, Ohio.--no. 54. Survey of forest plantations of Erie and Huron Counties.--no. 55. Survey of forest plantations of Mercer, Allen, Auglaize, and Shelby Counties, Ohio.--no. 56. Survey of forest plantations of Lorain and Medina Counties.--no. 57. Survey of forest plantations of Wayne County, Ohio.-- no. 58. Survey of forest plantations of Wyandot, Hardin, Marion, Logan, Union and Champaign Co.--no. 59. Forest resources of Preble County, Ohio. no. 62. Survey of forest plantations of Crawford and Morrow Counties.--no. 63. Survey of forest plantations of Franklin and Delaware Counties.--no. 64. Survey of forest plantations of Butler, Hamilton, Warren and Clermont Counties.--no. 65. Forest resources of Wayne County, Ohio. no. 68. Forest resources of Lorain County, Ohio.--no. 69. Forest resources of Medina County, Ohio.--no. 71. Ohio forest survey. A manual of procedure.--no. 73. Fires today and poverty tomorrow.--no. 74. Laws of Ohio relating to forest fires.--no. 75. Twenty-year plan for establishing a more adequate system of state forests and forest parks in Ohio.--no. 76. Ohio's forest resources. 1944.--no. 80. Growing conifers from seed.

Fire management notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

The archaeology of Standing Rock overhang : a long-term record of bighorn sheep hunting and processing in southeastern Idaho /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fire prevention in Illinois forests.

Issued originally as Forestry Circular no. 2.

Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River : wild and scenic river study : draft environmental statement.

Includes index.

The white-tailed deer of the Pisgah National Game Preserve, North Carolina.

Errata slip inserted.

Land manager's guide to the birds of the South /

Bird habitat matrices on accompanying computer diskette issued in pocket inside back cover.

Oak pests : a guide to major insects, diseases, air pollution and chemical injury /

Includes index.

California rural land use and management; a history of the use and occupancy of rural lands in California,

In 15 chapters, issued in 6 v.

Making sustainability operational : Fourth Mexico/U.S. Symposium = Haciendo operacional a la sostenibilidad : Cuarto Simposio Mexico/EUA : April 19-23, 1993, Santa Fe, New Mexico /

"December 1993."

Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management, October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California /

"March 1989"--T.p. verso.