(Table T1) Relative abundance of diatoms in ODP Hole 169-1034B sediments

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1034 (48°38.000'N, 123°30.000'W) was drilled at a water depth of 200 m in the Saanich Inlet, an anoxic fjord on the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to a depth of 118.2 meters below seafloor (mbsf). The uppermost 50 m consists of very well-laminated (triplet varves) diatomaceous muds deposited over the past 7000 yr. Below, sediments become progressively less distinctly laminated and reflect better oxygenated bottom-water conditions. The oldest sediments recovered at Site 1034 were dated as 14 to 15 ka (see Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.169s.1998).