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In this study foraminiferal census counts from 335 samples in a composite section from two cores located off the west coast of New Zealand's South Island provide the first continuous sea-surface temperature (SST) record extending back 1 million years in the Tasman Sea. The faunal composition and SSTs generated from it reproduce a complete record of glacial-interglacial (G-I) cycles with warm intervals dominated by N. incompta and cold intervals dominated by N. pachyderma or G. bulloides. [Source: Marine Micropaleontology]
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