Late Quaternary Distribution of the Cycladophora davisiana Radiolarian Species: Reflection of Possible Ventilation of the North Pacific Intermediate Water during the Last Glacial Maximum

A comparison of micropaleontological data on the distribution of the Cycladophora davisiana radiolarian species in the surface sediment layer and the Late Quaternary sediments from the Subarctic Pacific and Far East marginal seas allowed conclusions concerning the possible conditions and occurrence...

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Published in:Океанология
Main Authors: Matul, A. G., Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R., Nürnberg, Dirk, Tiedemann, Ralf, Kruglikova, S. B.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer 2015
Subjects:
Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Okhotsk
Pacific
Subarctic
Alaska
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27615/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27615/1/Matul%20et%20al_2015.pdf
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27615/2/Matul%20et%20al.2015_rus.pdf
https://doi.org/10.7868/S003015741501013X
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437015010130
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Summary:A comparison of micropaleontological data on the distribution of the Cycladophora davisiana radiolarian species in the surface sediment layer and the Late Quaternary sediments from the Subarctic Pacific and Far East marginal seas allowed conclusions concerning the possible conditions and occurrence of intermediate waters during the last glacial maximum. We used the modern data on the C. davisiana species, which is a micropaleontological indicator of the cold oxygen-rich upper intermediate water mass, which is now forming only in the Sea of Okhotsk. The high amount of C. davisiana in sediments of the last glacial maximum may point to the possible formation and expansion of the ventilated intermediate water in the most part of the Subarctic paleo-Pacific: the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, within the NW Gyre, and in the Gulf of Alaska.

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