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Supra-generic radiolarian transfer function based late Miocene palaeomonsoonal changes in the northeastern tropical Indian Ocean

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Title Supra-generic radiolarian transfer function based late Miocene palaeomonsoonal changes in the northeastern tropical Indian Ocean
 
Creator Gupta, S.M.
Fernandes, A.A.
 
Subject palaeoclimatology
monsoons
fossil radiolaria
statistical analysis
miocene
palaeontology
 
Description A Q-mode factor analysis of the % data of 25 broadly defined supra-generic radiolarian groups in 42 deep-sea surface sediments produced four statistically significant and geographically distinct faunal assemblages related to (1) southwest cooler (27 degrees C), hypersaline (34.5 ppt) and highly productive (0.3 mgC/m sup(3)/d); (2) northeastern warmer (27 degrees C), hyposaline (34.5 ppt) and poor productive (0.2 mgC/m sup(3)/d); (3) transitional and (4) southern water masses during southwest monsoon in the central Indian Ocean. The southwest hypersaline and northeast hyposaline faunal assemblages are separated by a transitional assemblage that divides the Central Indian Ocean Basin diagonally along the 34.5 ppt isohaline south of Sri Lanka. The southern factor dominates the area influenced by the 10-12 degrees S hydrographic front. Resultant transfer functions have multiple correlation coeflicients (r) at 0.001 level of significance (99.9%) for the salinity, PPT and SST for the southwest monsoon only. Descending trend in the correlation coefficients for the salinity-July-August (r=0.834), PPT-SWM (r=0.785) SST-spring (May-July) (r=0.695) suggests order of the faunal sensitivity in the area and their respective reliabilities in the paleoestimates. SST and PPT changes using % data of the late Miocene radiolarian sequence from the Sawai Bay Formation, Neill Island, Andamans. Estimated SST and salinity during southwest monsoon are not only conformable with the qualitative paleoceanography in terms of warmer periods (W) of W-9 and W-11, but also have resolved W-8 and W-10 in late Miocene Neill Island radiolarian data-set. Salinity minima in warmer and maxima in colder periods reflect the influx of fresh water from the Ganges-Bramhputra rivers into the Bay of Bengal during southwest monsoon.
 
Date 2009-01-25T06:12:49Z
2009-01-25T06:12:49Z
1995
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Bulletin of the Indian Geological Association, Vol.28; 29-51p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2371
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1995]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Indian Geological Association