Magnesium/Calcium ratios and oxygen isotopes of different planktonic foraminiera and benthic foraminifera of sediment core 08 and 53 retrived during reserach cruise SO225, Manihiki Plateau

The internal development of the tropicalWest Pacific Warm Pool and its interaction with high latitude ocean regions on geological timescales is only poorly constrained. Based on two newly recovered sediment cores fromthe southeastern margin of the West Pacific Warm Pool (northern and southern Manihiki Plateau), we provide new aspects on the dynamically interacting ocean circulation at surface, subsurface, thermocline, and deep thermocline levels during the Pleistocene (~2.5-0.5 Ma). Notably, the variability of thermocline and deep thermocline(~150-400 m water depth) foraminiferal Mg/Ca-based temperatures with up to ~6 °C amplitude variations exceeds those at shallower depths (down to ~120 m) with only ~2-3 °C temperature variations. A major gradual reorganization of the West Pacific Warm Pool oceanography occurred during the transitional timeperiod of ~1.7-1.35 Ma. Prior to ~1.7 Ma, pronounced meridional and latitudinal gradients in sea-surface to subsurface […]