Summary Biogenic carbonates in Antarctic marine sequences are critical to constrain reliable chronologies for Late Quaternary glacial/interglacial events. Increased amounts of iceberg rafted debris (IBRD) in ice-proximal sediments are proxies for climate-induced disruption of the Ross Ice Shelf syst...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.498.6921 2023-05-15T14:06:26+02:00 The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.6921 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/ea/of2007-1047ea098.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.6921 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/ea/of2007-1047ea098.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/ea/of2007-1047ea098.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T08:55:23Z Summary Biogenic carbonates in Antarctic marine sequences are critical to constrain reliable chronologies for Late Quaternary glacial/interglacial events. Increased amounts of iceberg rafted debris (IBRD) in ice-proximal sediments are proxies for climate-induced disruption of the Ross Ice Shelf system. However, ice rafting events seen in deep-sea sediments from this region lack age control because they are typically barren of calcareous microfossils. We document here evidence of carbonate preservation in three out of eight cores collected from the Ross Sea continental slope (2058-3360 m-depth). AMS-C-14 dates from N. pachyderma-rich IBRD range between 28.2 ka and 17.2 ka before present (B.P.), and between ~19 ka and 14.4 ka B.P. suggesting that deep Ross Sea sediments can retain a record of pre- and post- LGM events involving massive destabilization of the Ross Ice shelf-sea ice system. These events occurred at a regional scale and were possibly linked to global sea-level rise from meltwater pulse (MWP) events e.g., 19-kyr MWP. Text Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelf Iceberg* Ross Ice Shelf Ross Sea Sea ice Unknown Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf Ross Sea |
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Summary Biogenic carbonates in Antarctic marine sequences are critical to constrain reliable chronologies for Late Quaternary glacial/interglacial events. Increased amounts of iceberg rafted debris (IBRD) in ice-proximal sediments are proxies for climate-induced disruption of the Ross Ice Shelf system. However, ice rafting events seen in deep-sea sediments from this region lack age control because they are typically barren of calcareous microfossils. We document here evidence of carbonate preservation in three out of eight cores collected from the Ross Sea continental slope (2058-3360 m-depth). AMS-C-14 dates from N. pachyderma-rich IBRD range between 28.2 ka and 17.2 ka before present (B.P.), and between ~19 ka and 14.4 ka B.P. suggesting that deep Ross Sea sediments can retain a record of pre- and post- LGM events involving massive destabilization of the Ross Ice shelf-sea ice system. These events occurred at a regional scale and were possibly linked to global sea-level rise from meltwater pulse (MWP) events e.g., 19-kyr MWP. |
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