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Unraveling the onset of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in an extended sediment archive from the Tarfaya-Laayoune Basin, Morocco 在摩洛哥Tarfaya-Laayoune盆地扩展沉积物档案中揭示白垩纪海洋缺氧事件2的开始

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003146

W. Kuhnt, A. Holbourn, S. Beil, M. Aquit, T. Krawczyk, S. Flögel, E. H. Chellai, H. Jabour

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引用次数: 56

Molybdenum‐isotope chemostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) 早侏罗世Toarcian海洋缺氧事件的钼同位素化学地层学和古海洋学

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2016PA003048

A. Dickson, Benjamin C Gill, M. Ruhl, H. Jenkyns, D. Porcelli, E. Idiz, T. Lyons, S. V. D. Boorn

{"title":"Molybdenum‐isotope chemostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)","authors":"A. Dickson, Benjamin C Gill, M. Ruhl, H. Jenkyns, D. Porcelli, E. Idiz, T. Lyons, S. V. D. Boorn","doi":"10.1002/2016PA003048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA003048","url":null,"abstract":"Molybdenum (Mo)-isotope chemostratigraphy of organic-rich mudrocks has been a valuable tool for testing the hypothesis that the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, Early Jurassic, ~183 Ma) was characterized by the spread of marine euxinia (and organic-matter burial) at a global scale. However, the interpretation of existing Mo-isotope data for the T-OAE (from Yorkshire, Cleveland Basin, U.K.) is equivocal. In this study, three new Mo-isotope profiles are presented: from Dotternhausen Quarry (South German Basin, Germany), the Rijswijk core (West Netherlands Basin, Netherlands) and the Dogna core (Belluno Basin, northern Italy). Precise bio- and chemo-stratigraphic correlation between the three sites allows a direct comparison of the data, enabling some key conclusions to be reached: (i) The Mo-isotope composition of seawater during the peak of the T-OAE was probably close to ~1.45 ‰, implicating a greater removal flux of sulphides from seawater, and a larger extent of global seafloor euxinia compared to the present day; (ii) Mo-isotope cycles previously identified in the Yorkshire sedimentary succession are attributed to changes in the degree of local Mo drawdown from overlying Cleveland Basin seawater; (iii) The consistency of the new multi-site Mo-isotope dataset indicates a secular reduction in the burial of sulphides globally in the late stages of the T-OAE, implying a contraction in the extent of global marine euxinia; (iv) Subtle differences in the Mo-isotope composition of deposits formed in different euxinic sub-basins of the European epicontinental shelf were probably governed by local variations in basin hydrography and rates of water renewal.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"813-829"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2016PA003048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44338544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 62

Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galápagos 班布里奇火山口湖(Galápagos)记录的过去6000年热带太平洋气候变化

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003089

D. Thompson, J. Conroy, Aaron F. Collins, Stephan R. Hlohowskyj, J. Overpeck, Melanie A. Riedinger-Whitmore, J. Cole, M. Bush, H. Whitney, T. Corley, M. Kannan

引用次数: 32

Assessing oxygen depletion in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean during the last deglaciation using I/Ca ratios from multiple benthic foraminiferal species 利用多种底栖有孔虫物种的I/Ca比率评估上一次冰川消退期间东北太平洋的氧气消耗

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2016PA003062

M. Taylor, I. Hendy, A. Chappaz

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引用次数: 10

Enrichment of dissolved silica in the deep equatorial Pacific during the Eocene-Oligocene 始新世-渐新世赤道太平洋深处溶解二氧化硅的富集

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003090

Guillaume Fontorbe, P. Frings, C. Rocha, K. Hendry, J. Carstensen, D. Conley

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引用次数: 23

Deglacial changes in the strength of deep southern component water and sediment supply at the Argentine continental margin 阿根廷大陆边缘南部深水组分水和沉积物供应强度的冰期变化

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/2016PA003079

Grit Warratz, Ruediger Henrich, I. Voigt, C. Chiessi, G. Kuhn, H. Lantzsch

{"title":"Deglacial changes in the strength of deep southern component water and sediment supply at the Argentine continental margin","authors":"Grit Warratz, Ruediger Henrich, I. Voigt, C. Chiessi, G. Kuhn, H. Lantzsch","doi":"10.1002/2016PA003079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA003079","url":null,"abstract":"The deep southern component water (SCW), comprising Lower Circumpolar Deep Water (LCDW) and Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), is a major component of the global oceanic circulation. It has been suggested that the deep Atlantic water mass structure changed significantly during the last glacial/interglacial cycle. However, deep SCW source-proximal records remain sparse. Here we present three coherent deep SCW paleocurrent records from the deep Argentine continental margin shedding light on deep water circulation and deep SCW flow strength in the Southwest Atlantic since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Based on increased sortable silt values, we propose enhanced deep SCW flow strength from 14 to 10 cal ka B.P. relative to the early deglacial/LGM and the Holocene. We propose a direct influence of deep northern component water (NCW) on deep SCW flow strength due to vertical narrowing of deep SCW spreading, concurrent with a migration of the high-energetic LCDW/AABW interface occupying our core sites. We suggest a shoaled NCW until 13 cal ka B.P., thereby providing space for deep SCW spreading that resulted in reduced carbonate preservation at our core sites. Increased carbonate content from 13 cal ka B.P. indicates that the NCW expanded changing deep water properties at our core sites in the deep Southwest Atlantic. However, southern sourced terrigenous sediments continued to be deposited at our core sites, suggesting that deep SCW flow was uninterrupted along the Argentine continental margin since the LGM.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"796-812"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2016PA003079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46478272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

Insolation forcing of coccolithophore productivity in the western tropical Indian Ocean over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles 热带印度洋西部近两次冰川-间冰循环中球石藻生产力的蒸发强迫

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003102

D. Tangunan, K. Baumann, J. Pätzold, R. Henrich, M. Kučera, R. Pol-Holz, J. Groeneveld

{"title":"Insolation forcing of coccolithophore productivity in the western tropical Indian Ocean over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles","authors":"D. Tangunan, K. Baumann, J. Pätzold, R. Henrich, M. Kučera, R. Pol-Holz, J. Groeneveld","doi":"10.1002/2017PA003102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003102","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new coccolithophore productivity reconstruction spanning the last 300 ka in core GeoB12613-1 retrieved from the western tropical Indian Ocean (IO), an area that mainly derives its warm and oligotrophic surface waters from the eastern IO. Application of a calibrated assemblage-based productivity index indicates a reduction in estimated primary productivity (EPP) from 300 ka to the present, with reconstructed EPP values ranging from 91 to 246 g C/m2/yr. Coccolithophore assemblages and coccolith fraction Sr/Ca indicate three main phases of productivity change, with major changes at 160 and 46 ka. The productivity and water-column stratification records show both dominant precession and obliquity periodicities, which appear to control the paleoproductivity in the study area over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Shallowing of the thermocline due to strengthening of the trade winds in response to insolation maxima resulted to peaks in EPP. Comparison with the eastern IO productivity and stratification coccolithophore data reveals good correspondence with our records, indicating a strong tropical Pacific influence in our study area. Both of these records show high productivity from 300 ka to 160 ka, interpreted to be due to stronger Walker Circulation while the declining productivity from 160 ka to the present day is a consequence of its weakening intensity.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"692-709"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2017PA003102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49515004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 13

Antarctic climate, Southern Ocean circulation patterns, and deep-water formation during the Eocene 始新世的南极气候、南大洋环流模式和深水形成

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003135

Claire E Huck, T. Flierdt, S. Bohaty, S. Hammond

{"title":"Antarctic climate, Southern Ocean circulation patterns, and deep-water formation during the Eocene","authors":"Claire E Huck, T. Flierdt, S. Bohaty, S. Hammond","doi":"10.1002/2017PA003135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003135","url":null,"abstract":"We assess early-to-middle Eocene seawater neodymium (Nd) isotope records from seven Southern Ocean deep-sea drill sites to evaluate the role of Southern Ocean circulation in long-term Cenozoic climate change. Our study sites are strategically located on either side of the Tasman Gateway and are positioned at a range of shallow (<500 m) to intermediate/deep (~1000–2500 m) paleowater depths. Unradiogenic seawater Nd isotopic compositions, reconstructed from fish teeth at intermediate/deep Indian Ocean pelagic sites (Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 738 and 757 and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 264), indicate a dominant Southern Ocean-sourced contribution to regional deep waters (eNd(t) = −9.3 ± 1.5). IODP Site U1356 off the coast of Adelie Land, a locus of modern-day Antarctic Bottom Water production, is identified as a site of persistent deep water formation from the early Eocene to the Oligocene. East of the Tasman Gateway an additional local source of intermediate/deep water formation is inferred at ODP Site 277 in the SW Pacific Ocean (eNd(t) = −8.7 ± 1.5). Antarctic-proximal shelf sites (ODP Site 1171 and Site U1356) reveal a pronounced erosional event between 49 and 48 Ma, manifested by ~2 eNd unit negative excursions in seawater chemistry toward the composition of bulk sediments at these sites. This erosional event coincides with the termination of peak global warmth following the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum and is associated with documented cooling across the study region and increased export of Antarctic deep waters, highlighting the complexity and importance of Southern Ocean circulation in the greenhouse climate of the Eocene.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"674-691"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2017PA003135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46804328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 40

Shallow marine response to global climate change during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum, Salisbury Embayment, USA 古新世—始新世极热期浅海对全球气候变化的响应

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003096

J. Self‐Trail, M. Robinson, T. Bralower, J. Sessa, E. Hajek, L. Kump, S. Trampush, D. Willard, L. Edwards, D. Powars, G. A. Wandless

{"title":"Shallow marine response to global climate change during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum, Salisbury Embayment, USA","authors":"J. Self‐Trail, M. Robinson, T. Bralower, J. Sessa, E. Hajek, L. Kump, S. Trampush, D. Willard, L. Edwards, D. Powars, G. A. Wandless","doi":"10.1002/2017PA003096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003096","url":null,"abstract":"The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was an interval of extreme warmth that caused disruption of marine and terrestrial ecosystems on a global scale. Here we examine the sediments, flora and fauna from an expanded section at Mattawoman Creek-Billingsley Road (MCBR) in Maryland and explore the impact of warming at a nearshore shallow marine (30-100 m water depth) site in the Salisbury Embayment. Observations indicate that, at the onset of the PETM, the site abruptly shifted from an open-marine to prodelta setting with increased terrestrial and fresh water input. Changes in microfossil biota suggest stratification of the water column and low oxygen bottom water conditions in the earliest Eocene. Formation of authigenic carbonate through microbial diagenesis produced an unusually large bulk carbon isotope shift, while the magnitude of the corresponding signal from benthic foraminifera is similar to that at other marine sites. This proves that the landward increase in the magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion measured in bulk sediment is not due to a near instantaneous release of 12C-enriched CO2. We conclude that the MCBR site records nearshore marine response to global climate change that can be used as an analog for modern coastal response to global warming.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"710-728"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2017PA003096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48124107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 40

Vertical thermal gradient history in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the early to middle Miocene: Implications for the equatorial thermocline development 中新世早期至中期赤道太平洋东部的垂直热梯度历史：对赤道温跃层发展的影响

Paleoceanography Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/2016PA003058

H. Matsui, H. Nishi, A. Kuroyanagi, H. Hayashi, M. Ikehara, R. Takashima

{"title":"Vertical thermal gradient history in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the early to middle Miocene: Implications for the equatorial thermocline development","authors":"H. Matsui, H. Nishi, A. Kuroyanagi, H. Hayashi, M. Ikehara, R. Takashima","doi":"10.1002/2016PA003058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA003058","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of the equatorial thermocline is essential for understanding climate changes in the tropical Pacific. Multispecies planktic foraminiferal analyses provide a way to examine temperature distributions and thus the structure of the thermocline. Although the secular thermocline development has been documented back to the late Miocene, the early to middle Miocene interval has rarely been examined. In addition, relationships with the dynamic Antarctic ice sheets remain unclear. Here we investigate the vertical thermal gradient in the upper water column at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1337 in the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) throughout the early to middle Miocene (23.1 to 11.7 Ma). The gradient increased over the Miocene Climatic Optimum, whereas it decreased during the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Expansion (EAIE). Comparison of the EEP record with its western equatorial Pacific (WEP) counterpart suggests that sea surface temperature was more stable in the WEP than in the EEP. We further estimated equatorial thermocline from two diagonal gradients between the EEP and the WEP: thermocline shoaled from 16.7 to 15.7 Ma and tilt weakened between 16.5 and 13.8 Ma. The onset of the “Monterey Excursion” and the reduced Antarctic ice sheet volume would have affected thermocline depth and tilt, respectively. Thermocline depth was likely much deeper compared to Pliocene-to-modern conditions. Furthermore, a 4-point-based distribution of isotherms (4DI index) was used as a metric of the evenness or unevenness of the isotherm distributions. The 4DI index considerably reduced at around the EAIE and other Mi-events, reflecting the evenly distributed isotherms under a more glaciated Antarctica.","PeriodicalId":19882,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography","volume":"32 1","pages":"729-743"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/2016PA003058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7