Productivity influences on oxygenation of the Santa Barbara Basin, California, during the late Quaternary ...

• Main Author: Ivanochko, Tara S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: Greenland; Greenland ice cores
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0052541; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0052541

Short-term fluctuations in the bottom water oxygen content of Santa Barbara Basin have been previously recognized from variations in a sedimentary bioturbation index (Behl and Kennett, 1996). A correlation between such anoxic events in the basin and Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadials, as measured from δ180ice in Greenland ice cores, was then used by the same authors to relate variations in bottom water oxygenation to high-frequency changes in the ventilation of the Santa Barbara Basin, driven by pan-hemispheric changes in climate transmitted through the atmosphere. An additional control on the oxygen content at depth is the local settling flux of metabolizable organic matter. Trace metal measurements from closely-spaced sediment samples are used here to distinguish oxygen depletion resulting from local increases in export production from oxygen depletion introduced by the importation of O2-poor water. Molybdenum, Re, U, Cd, and Ag and interelement ratios are used in conjunction with organic carbon ...