(Table 1) Calcareous nannofossil distribution at ODP Site 180-1109 from the Solomon Sea, western Pacific

The paleoceanography of the Solomon Sea for the last 195,000 years was investigated, based on the observations of 21 taxonomic groups of calcareous nannofossils in 144 samples taken from tocean drilling program (ODP) cores 1109A-1H and 1109C-2H. Oxygen isotope ratios in tests of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber allow us to assign the cores to oxygen isotope stages 7-1.