(Table 2) Age determination of sediments from the Nordic Seas, supplement to: Klitgaard-Kristensen, Dorthe; Sejrup, Hans Petter; Haflidason, Haflidi (2001): The last 18 kyr fluctuations in Norwegian sea surface conditions and implications for the magnitude of climatic change: Evidence from the North Sea. Paleoceanography, 16(5), 455-467

• Main Authors: Klitgaard-Kristensen, Dorthe, Sejrup, Hans Petter, Haflidason, Haflidi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2001
• Subjects: Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth, top/min; Depth, bottom/max; Age, dated material; Laboratory code/label; Age, dated; Age, dated standard deviation; Reservoir age; Calendar age; Age, 14C AMS; Age, 14C calibrated; Arctic; Norwegian Sea; Kristensen; Birks; Foraminifera*; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.846598; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.846598

A combined record of three cores spanning the last 18 kyr from the northern North Sea is investigated for content of benthic and planktonic foraminifera and stable oxygen isotopes. The paleoenvironmental development through this time period shows an early deglaciation (18-14.4 ka) and the Younger Dryas (12.7-11.5 ka) characterized by arctic/polar conditions and increased ice rafting in the Norwegian Channel. During the Bølling-Allerød period, warm sea surface temperature (9°C) conditions similar to present conditions are inferred, while bottom waters stayed cold (0-1°C) with normal salinity. The Bølling-Allerød period is interrupted twice at 13.9-13.6 ka (Older Dryas) and at 13.0-12.8 ka (Inter-Allerød Cooling Period) by reductions in sea surface temperatures and increased sea ice cover. The beginning of the Holocene period is marked by increases in surface and bottom water temperature. Superimposed on the broad climatic changes through the Holocene, a series of short-lived oscillations in the ocean circulation are recorded. The amplitude of these Holocene events appears larger in the early Holocene (prior to 8 ka) than compared with the remaining part of the Holocene. This amplification can possibly be attributed to a general increased freshwater budget in the North Atlantic at this time during the final stages of the deglaciation of the Laurentide and Scandinavian ice sheets. : For reservoir correction and calibration of AMS dates older than 10 14C ka, see Haflidason et al. (1995) for more details; for AMS dates younger than 10 14C ka, see Stuiver and Braziunas (1993). Dating of ash layers is from Birks et al. (1996).