Dynamics of Manganese and Cerium Enrichments in Arctic Ocean Sediments: A Case Study From the Alpha Ridge

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Liming Ye, Christian März, Leonid Polyak, Xiaoguo Yu, Weiyan Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; reactive metals; sea level; paleoceanography; sedimentary stratigraphy; Quaternary; Science; Q; Alpha Ridge; Arctic; alpha ridge; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00236; https://doaj.org/article/9c5b6fc4e287467881c9530354b09d78

Manganese (Mn) and cerium (Ce) are known as reactive metals sensitive to marine redox conditions, and can therefore serve as useful proxies for paleoceanographic environments. Quaternary sedimentary records in the Arctic Ocean show a consistent cyclicity of Mn enrichments, but Mn sources, transporta...