1,926 | 5.0 | Foraminifera | FDO |
1,963 | 5.8 | Nannofossils | Maximum flooding surface (MFS) |
1,987 | 5.8 | Foraminifera | Peak faunal abundance (MFS) |
2,097 | 6.3 | Nannofossils | Sequence boundary |
2,316 | 7.0 | Nannofossils | MFS |
1 | Quaternary | Holocene | Taranian | |
2 | ||||
Pleistocene | Ionian | |||
3 | ||||
Calabrian | ||||
4 | Neogene | Pliocene | Gelasian | |
5 | Piacenzian | |||
6 | Zanclean | |||
7 | Miocene | Messinian |
STEP-1 well | |
8 | ||||
9 | Tortonian | |||
10 |
1,841 | First sample analysed | Late Miocene to early Pliocene | ||
1,902 | Presence of |
NN 12 | ||
1,914 | Presence of |
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1,926 | ||||
1,939 | FDO: |
5.8 | ||
1,963 | Maximum flooding surface | |||
2,292 | FDO: |
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2,316 | Maximum flooding surface, Presence: Discoaster quinqueramus | 7.0 | NN 11 | |
2,438 TD |
1,829 | Miocene | Late Miocene | P 800 | P 840 | Quantitative base occurrence of |
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1,981 | ||||||
2,134 | ||||||
2,204 | P 830 | |||||
2,286 | ||||||
2,438 |
1,853 |
Early Pliocene | N18 | Indeterminate | FDO |
1,987 |
Late Pliocene | N17 and older | Peak fauna abundance 5.8Ma MFS |
Depth (m) | Epoch | Age | P zone | B zone | N zone | Pa zone | Pa zone and sub-zone | Bioevents | |
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1,900 | Early Pliocene | ZANCLEAN | N18 | NN 12 | P800 | P840 | FDO |
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1,950 | Presence of |
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2,000 | Presence of |
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2,050 | FDO |
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2,100 | FDO |
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2,150 | Late Miocene | MESSIAN | N 17 and older | NN 11 | P830 | 5.8 Ma MFS | |||
2,200 | Peak faunal abundance (5.8 Ma MFS) | ||||||||
2,250 | 6.3 Ma SB | ||||||||
2,300 | Quantitative base occurrence of |
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2,350 | |||||||||
2,400 | 7.0 Ma MFS |