Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of benthic foraminifera ...

• Main Authors: Curry, William B, Duplessy, Jean-Claude, Labeyrie, Laurent D, Shackleton, Nicholas J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1988
• Subjects: GLAMAP; Piston corer; Gravity corer; Kasten corer; CH7X; MIDLANTE2; CH8X; EN06601; M25; KN07307; KN11002; MD10; OSIRIS4; MD38; RC11; RC13; V19; V22; V25; V26; V28; V30; V35; Jean Charcot; Endeavor; Meteor 1964; Knorr; Marion Dufresne 1972; Robert Conrad; Vema; Institute for Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel GIK/IfG; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.726195; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.726195

Carbon isotopic measurements on the benthic foraminiferal genus Cibicidoides document that mean deep ocean delta13C values were 0.46 per mil lower during the last glacial maximum than during the Late Holocene. The geographic distribution of delta13C was altered by changes in the production rate of nutrient-depleted deep water in the North Atlantic. During the Late Holocene, North Atlantic Deep Water, with high delta13C values and low nutrient values, can be found throughout the Atlantic Ocean, and its effects can be traced into the southern ocean where it mixes with recirculated Pacific deep water. During the glaciation, decreased production of North Atlantic Deep Water allowed southern ocean deep water to penetrate farther into the North Atlantic and across low-latitude fracture zones into the eastern Atlantic. Mean southern ocean delta13C values during the glaciation are lower than both North Atlantic and Pacific delta13C values, suggesting that production of nutrient-depleted water occurred in both oceans ... : Further relevant datasets: Zahn et al. (1982) doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.52239, Shackleton (1977) doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.692062 ...