(Table T1) Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of benthic foraminifera in the Late Pliocene-Pleistocene section of ODP Site 181-1123 in the Southwest Pacific

Stable isotope records were generated for a late Pliocene-early Pleistocene interval from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1123 in the southwest Pacific (41°47 S, 171°30 W; 3290 m water depth). Based on these data, new revisions were made to the shipboard splice and composite section. The isotope records will be used to evaluate the influence of North Atlantic and Southern Ocean deepwater masses on water entering the Pacific in the Deep Western Boundary Current. Three holes were cored at Site 1123, yielding a complete composite section over approximately the last 4.7 m.y. A representative spliced record ("the splice") was developed aboard ship based on magnetic susceptibility, gamma ray attenuation bulk density, and percent reflectance data from the three adjacent holes (Carter, McCave, Richter, Carter, et al., 1999, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.181.2000). No gaps in the sedimentary record were detected for the multiple-cored section of Site 1123. In addition to the isotope data, postcruise revisions to the splice and composite section based on stable isotope data are described here.

Stable oxygen isotope record of planktonic foraminifera from late Quaternary sediments of the equatorial Pacific

Planktonic foraminiferal test fragmentation in three cores along a depth transect from the western equatorial Pacific (ERDC-93P, 1619 m; RC17-177, 2600 m; V28-238, 3120 m [Thompson, 1976]) were examined for the last 500 kyr at sample intervals from 2.5 to 5 kyr to study the fluctuations of dissolution in the western equatorial Pacific. The age models were constructed by correlating the delta18O records with the SPECMAP stack [Imbrie et al., 1984]. Results showed that intermediate and deep waters experienced the same patterns of dissolution through climatic cycles. Fragmentation varied with a greater amplitude, and the carbonate ion concentration changed less, in the deep than in the intermediate water. Dissolution has significant variance distributions and coherencies with delta18O over the 100, 41, and 23 kyr periods of orbital variations; dissolution maxima lag ice volume minima by 6 to 20 kyr. The dissolution variability was consistent with recent geochemical models which seek to explain the reduction of atmospheric CO2 concentration at the last glacial maximum [Broecker, 1982; Boyle, 1988].

(Table 1) Sea surface temperature reconstruction for eastern equatorial Pacific surface sediment samples

Significant uncertainties persist in the reconstruction of past sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, especially regarding the amplitude of the glacial cooling and the details of the post-glacial warming. Here we present the first regional calibration of alkenone unsaturation in surface sediments versus mean annual sea surface temperatures (maSST). Based on 81 new and 48 previously published data points, it is shown that open ocean samples conform to established global regressions of Uk'37 versus maSST and that there is no systematic bias from seasonality in the production or export of alkenones, or from surface ocean nutrient concentrations or salinity. The flattening of the regression at the highest maSSTs is found to be statistically insignificant. For the near-coastal Peru upwelling zone between 11-15°S and 76-79°W, however, we corroborate earlier observations that Uk'37 SST estimates significantly over-estimate maSSTs at many sites. We posit that this is caused either by uncertainties in the determination of maSSTs in this highly dynamic environment, or by biasing of the alkenone paleothermometer toward El Niño events as postulated by Rein et al. (2005).

Western Canada - Manitoba, Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. How to get there. How to select lands. How to begin. How to make money.

Cover-title: Farming and ranching in western Canada.

Stratification requirements for germination of western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) seed /

"January 1990."

Proceedings of the Symposium on Research and Management of Annosus Rood Disease (Heterobasidion annosum) in Western North America, April 18-21, 1989, Monterey, California /

Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliography of western language materials on Korea.

Cover title.

Western camera notes; a monthly magazine of pictorial photography.

Subtitle varies.

Pacific medical journal.

Caption title: vol. 1-26, 28, have t.-p.

History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the sources of the Missouri : thence across the Rockey Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806, by order of the government of the United States /

The chapter on natural history (1st edition, v. 2, chapter 7) is in this edition transferred to the appendix. In this appendix the Estimate of the western Indians is given under the heading: "Enumeration of Indian nations and their places of general residence".

Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850 : being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas : and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California /

Kurutz, G.F. California gold rush,

Management of wildlife and fish habitats in forests of western Oregon and Washington /

"June 1985."

Geographical guide to floras of the world : an annotated list with special reference to useful plants and common plant names : Part II, Western Europe : Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain with Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, San Marino, and Switzerland /

"Part I : Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and islands of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans" was issued as Miscellaneous publication no. 401.

Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and western Santa Barbara Channel : final report /

"October 1993."

The San Francisco Western Lancet. a Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery

Ceased Publication; In July 1884 United with the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal under the Title, Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet