Temperature reconstruction of sediment core SO9-93KL ...

• Main Authors: Schulz, Hartmut, Emeis, Kay-Christian, Erlenkeuser, Helmut, von Rad, Ulrich, Rolf, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2002
• Subjects: Piston corer BGR type; SO90; Sonne; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM; Greenland; ice core
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.735955; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735955

The Toba volcanic event, one of the largest eruptions during the Quaternary, is documented in marine sediment cores from the northeastern Arabian Sea. On the crest of the Murray Ridge and along the western Indian continental margin, we detected distinct concentration spikes and ash layers of rhyolithic volcanic shards near the marine isotope stage 5-4 boundary with the chemical composition of the "Youngest Toba Tuff". Time series of the Uk'37-alkenone index, planktic foraminiferal species, magnetic susceptibility, and sediment accumulation rates from this interval show that the Toba event occurred between two warm periods lasting a few millennia. Using Toba as an instantaneous stratigraphic marker for correlation between the marine- and ice-core chronostratigraphies, these two Arabian Sea climatic events correspond to Greenland interstadials 20 and 19, respectively. Our data sets thus depict substantial interstadial/stadial fluctuations in sea-surface temperature and surface-water productivity. We show that ... : Supplement to: Schulz, Hartmut; Emeis, Kay-Christian; Erlenkeuser, Helmut; von Rad, Ulrich; Rolf, Christian (2002): The Toba Volcanic Event and Interstadial/Stadial Climates at the Marine Isotopic Stage 5 to 4 Transition in the Northern Indian Ocean. Quaternary Research, 57(1), 22-31 ...