(Table 1) Radiocarbon datings and calendar year calibrations in sediment core MD99-2304, western Svalbard, supplement to: Ebbesen, Hanne; Hald, Morten; Eplet, Trond Henrik (2007): Late glacial and early Holocene climatic oscillations on the western Svalbard margin, European Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(15-16), 1999-2011

• Main Authors: Ebbesen, Hanne, Hald, Morten, Eplet, Trond Henrik
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2007
• Subjects: ipy; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Sample ID; Age, dated material; Age, dated; Age, dated standard deviation; Reservoir effect/correction; delta; Standard deviation; Age, maximum/old; Age, minimum/young; Calendar age; Calypso Corer; Age, 14C AMS; Age, 14C calibrated, CALIB 5.0 Stuiver et al., 2005; MD114; Marion Dufresne 1995; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Foraminifera*; Iceberg*; International Polar Year; IPY; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera; Svalbard margin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.786082; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786082

A multi proxy sediment core record on the continental margin off western Svalbard, European Arctic, reflects large climatic and oceanographic oscillations at the Lateglacial-early Holocene transition. Based on studies of planktonic foraminifera, their stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition and ice rafted debris, we have reconstructed the last 14 cal. ka BP. The period 14-13.5 cal. ka BP was characterized by highly unstable climatic conditions. Short-lived episodes of warming alternated with meltwater pulses and enhanced iceberg rafting. This period correlates to a regional warming of the northern North Atlantic. An overall decrease in meltwater took place during the deglaciation (14-10.8 cal. ka BP). The late Younger Dryas and subsequent transition into the early Holocene is characterized by a reduced flux of planktonic foraminifera and increased iceberg rafting. A major warming took place from 10.8 to 9.7 cal. ka BP, the influence of meltwater ceased and the flux of warm Atlantic Water increased. From 9.7 to 8.8 cal. ka BP, the western Svalbard margin surface waters were significantly warmer than today. This warm period, the thermal maximum, was followed by an abrupt cooling at 8.8. cal. ka BP, caused by an increased influence of Arctic Water from the Arctic Ocean. The results document that the European Arctic was very sensitive to climatic and oceanographic changes at the end of the last glacial and during the Holocene. : Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150