Dinocyst percentages in sediment core MSM05/3_343310 from Disko Bugt, West Greenland

• Main Authors: Allan, Estelle, de Vernal, Anne, Knudsen, Mads Faurschou, Hillaire-Marcel, Claude, Moros, Matthias, Ribeiro, Sofia, Ouellet‐Bernier, Marie‐Michèle, Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Achomosphaera spp.; Age; Arctic climate change; Arctic sea ice reconstructions; Baffin Bay; Bitectatodinium tepikiense; Brigantedinium spp.; Counting; palynology; Dinocyst database; Dubridinium spp.; Echinidinium spp.; Event label; GC; Gravity corer; Impagidinium aculeatum; Impagidinium pallidum; Islandinium? cezare; Islandinium brevispinosum; Islandinium minutum; Late Holocene; Lejeunecysta spp.; Maria S. Merian; MSM05/3; MSM05/3_343310-2-2; MSM05/3_343310-5-1; MUC; MultiCorer; Nematosphaeropsis labyrinthus; Operculodinium centrocarpum; Pentapharsodinium dalei cyst; Protoperidinium americanum; Protoperidinium nudum cyst; Selenopemphix quanta; Spiniferites belerius; Spiniferites bentori; Spiniferites elongatus; Spiniferites ramosus; Spiniferites spp.; Votadinium calvum; West Greenland; Baffin; Climate change; Disko bugt; Greenland; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.898915; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898915

Palynological analyses of sediment core MSM343310 from Disko Bugt (68°38.861' N, 53°49.493' W) document decadal‐ to centennial‐scale variability of sea surface conditions during the last ~3,600 years. Dinocyst fluxes (>10⁴ cysts/cm² yr⁻¹) indicate a very high productivity. Dinocyst asse...