Age determination and radionuclides of sediment cores from the Western Atlantic

The CO2 record for air bubbles from the Byrd Station ice core suggest a drawdown in the ocean-atmosphere carbon reservoir during the early Holocene. Such a drawdown would require a corresponding increase in the CO3= ion concentration in the deep sea. We report here the results of a search in Atlanti...

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Main Authors: Broecker, Wallace S, Lao, Yong, Klas, Mieczyslawa, Clark, Elizabeth, Bonani, Georges, Ivy, Susan, Chen, Chin
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1993
Subjects:
PC
V30
V31
V32
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.729720
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.729720
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Summary:The CO2 record for air bubbles from the Byrd Station ice core suggest a drawdown in the ocean-atmosphere carbon reservoir during the early Holocene. Such a drawdown would require a corresponding increase in the CO3= ion concentration in the deep sea. We report here the results of a search in Atlantic sediments for evidence that the lysocline showed a corresponding deepening. While both the pteropod and the calcite preservation records we have obtained are consistent with expectation, they are not conclusive.