Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds
This study analyzes coccolithophore abundance fluctuations (e. g., Emiliania huxleyi, Gephyrocapsa specimens, and Florisphaera profunda) in core MD01-2444 sediment strata retrieved at the Iberian Margin, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Coccolithophores are calcareous nannofossils, a major component of...
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ftarchimer:oai:archimer.ifremer.fr:34205 2023-05-15T15:17:54+02:00 Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds Incarbona, Alessandro Martrat, Belen Di Stefano, Enrico Grimalt, Joan O. Pelosi, Nicola Patti, Bernardo Tranchida, Giorgio 2010-06 application/pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34205/32756.pdf https://doi.org/10.1029/2008PA001709 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34205/ eng eng Amer Geophysical Union https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34205/32756.pdf doi:10.1029/2008PA001709 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34205/ Copyright 2010 by the American Geophysical Union info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess restricted use Paleoceanography (0883-8305) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2010-06 , Vol. 25 , N. 2 / PA221 , P. 1-15 text Publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2010 ftarchimer https://doi.org/10.1029/2008PA001709 2021-09-23T20:25:14Z This study analyzes coccolithophore abundance fluctuations (e. g., Emiliania huxleyi, Gephyrocapsa specimens, and Florisphaera profunda) in core MD01-2444 sediment strata retrieved at the Iberian Margin, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Coccolithophores are calcareous nannofossils, a major component of the oceanic phytoplankton, which provide information about past ecological and climatological variability. Results are supported by data on fossil organic compounds (sea surface temperatures, alkenones, and n-hexacosan-1-ol index) and geochemical analyses (benthic delta C-13(cc) and planktonic delta O-18(cc) isotopes). Three scenarios are taken into account for this location at centennial-scale resolution over the last 70,000 years: the Holocene and the stadial and interstadial modes. The different alternatives are described by means of elements such as nutrients; upwelling phenomena; temperatures at surface and subsurface level; or the arrival of surface turbid, fresh, and cold waters due to icebergs, low sea level, increased aridity, and dust. During the Holocene, moderate primary productivity was observed (mainly concentrated in E. huxleyi specimens); surface temperatures were at maxima while the water column was highly ventilated by northern-sourced polar deep waters and warmer subsurface, nutrient-poor subtropical waters. Over most of the last glacial stadials, surface productivity weakened (higher F. profunda and reworked specimen percentages and lower diunsaturated and triunsaturated C-37 alkenones); the arrival of cold Arctic surface waters traced by tetraunsaturated C-37 peaks and large E. huxleyi, together with powerful ventilated southern-sourced polar deep waters, disturbed, in all likelihood, the delicate vertical equilibrium while preventing significant upwelling mixing. Finally, during the last glacial interstadials (lower F. profunda percentages, nonreworked material, and higher diunsaturated and triunsaturated C-37 alkenones) a combined signal is observed: warm surface temperatures were concurrent with generally low oxygenation of the deep-sea floor, moderate arrival of northern-sourced deep waters, and subsurface cold, nutrient-rich, recently upwelled waters, probably of polar origin; these particular conditions may have promoted vertical mixing while enhancing surface primary productivity (mainly of Gephyrocapsa specimens). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Iceberg* Phytoplankton Archimer (Archive Institutionnelle de l'Ifremer - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer) Arctic Paleoceanography 25 2 |
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This study analyzes coccolithophore abundance fluctuations (e. g., Emiliania huxleyi, Gephyrocapsa specimens, and Florisphaera profunda) in core MD01-2444 sediment strata retrieved at the Iberian Margin, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Coccolithophores are calcareous nannofossils, a major component of the oceanic phytoplankton, which provide information about past ecological and climatological variability. Results are supported by data on fossil organic compounds (sea surface temperatures, alkenones, and n-hexacosan-1-ol index) and geochemical analyses (benthic delta C-13(cc) and planktonic delta O-18(cc) isotopes). Three scenarios are taken into account for this location at centennial-scale resolution over the last 70,000 years: the Holocene and the stadial and interstadial modes. The different alternatives are described by means of elements such as nutrients; upwelling phenomena; temperatures at surface and subsurface level; or the arrival of surface turbid, fresh, and cold waters due to icebergs, low sea level, increased aridity, and dust. During the Holocene, moderate primary productivity was observed (mainly concentrated in E. huxleyi specimens); surface temperatures were at maxima while the water column was highly ventilated by northern-sourced polar deep waters and warmer subsurface, nutrient-poor subtropical waters. Over most of the last glacial stadials, surface productivity weakened (higher F. profunda and reworked specimen percentages and lower diunsaturated and triunsaturated C-37 alkenones); the arrival of cold Arctic surface waters traced by tetraunsaturated C-37 peaks and large E. huxleyi, together with powerful ventilated southern-sourced polar deep waters, disturbed, in all likelihood, the delicate vertical equilibrium while preventing significant upwelling mixing. Finally, during the last glacial interstadials (lower F. profunda percentages, nonreworked material, and higher diunsaturated and triunsaturated C-37 alkenones) a combined signal is observed: warm surface temperatures were concurrent with generally low oxygenation of the deep-sea floor, moderate arrival of northern-sourced deep waters, and subsurface cold, nutrient-rich, recently upwelled waters, probably of polar origin; these particular conditions may have promoted vertical mixing while enhancing surface primary productivity (mainly of Gephyrocapsa specimens). |
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Incarbona, Alessandro Martrat, Belen Di Stefano, Enrico Grimalt, Joan O. Pelosi, Nicola Patti, Bernardo Tranchida, Giorgio Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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Incarbona, Alessandro Martrat, Belen Di Stefano, Enrico Grimalt, Joan O. Pelosi, Nicola Patti, Bernardo Tranchida, Giorgio |
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Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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Primary productivity variability on the Atlantic Iberian Margin over the last 70,000 years: Evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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primary productivity variability on the atlantic iberian margin over the last 70,000 years: evidence from coccolithophores and fossil organic compounds |
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