Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic)
Through the interplay of a stabilising cold-water coral framework and a dynamic sedimentary environment, cold-water coral carbonate mounds create distinctive centres of bio-geological accumulation in often complex (continental margin) settings. The IODP Expedition 307 drilling of the Challenger Moun...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:356344 2023-07-30T04:04:14+02:00 Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) Thierens, M. Browning, E. Pirlet, H. Loutre, M.-F. Dorschel, B. Huvenne, V.A.I. Titschack, J. Colin, C. Foubert, A. Wheeler, A.J. 2013-08-01 https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/356344/ English eng Thierens, M., Browning, E., Pirlet, H., Loutre, M.-F., Dorschel, B., Huvenne, V.A.I., Titschack, J., Colin, C., Foubert, A. and Wheeler, A.J. (2013) Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic). Quaternary Science Reviews, 73, 14-30. (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006>). Article PeerReviewed 2013 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006 2023-07-09T21:48:46Z Through the interplay of a stabilising cold-water coral framework and a dynamic sedimentary environment, cold-water coral carbonate mounds create distinctive centres of bio-geological accumulation in often complex (continental margin) settings. The IODP Expedition 307 drilling of the Challenger Mound (eastern Porcupine Seabight; NE Atlantic) not only retrieved the first complete developmental history of a coral carbonate mound, it also exposed a unique, Early-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of exceptional resolution along the mid-latitudinal NE Atlantic margin. In this study, a comprehensive assessment of the Challenger Mound as an archive of Quaternary palaeo-environmental change and long-term coral carbonate mound development is presented. New and existing environmental proxy records, including clay mineralogy, planktonic foraminifer and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and assemblage counts, planktonic foraminifer oxygen isotopes and siliciclastic particle-size, are thereby discussed within a refined chronostratigraphic and climatic context. Overall, the development of the Challenger Mound shows a strong affinity to the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Northern Hemisphere climate system, albeit not being completely in phase with it. The two major oceanographic and climatic transitions of the Plio-Pleistocene – the Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene intensification of continental ice-sheet development and the mid-Pleistocene transition to the more extremely variable and more extensively glaciated late Quaternary – mark two major thresholds in Challenger Mound development: its Late Pliocene (>2.74 Ma) origin and its Middle–Late Pleistocene to recent decline. Distinct surface-water perturbations (i.e. water-mass/polar front migrations, productivity changes, melt-water pulses) are identified throughout the sequence, which can be linked to the intensity and extent of ice development on the nearby British–Irish Isles since the earliest Pleistocene. Glaciation-induced shifts in surface-water primary ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Porcupine Seabight ENVELOPE(-13.000,-13.000,50.500,50.500) Quaternary Science Reviews 73 14 30 |
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Through the interplay of a stabilising cold-water coral framework and a dynamic sedimentary environment, cold-water coral carbonate mounds create distinctive centres of bio-geological accumulation in often complex (continental margin) settings. The IODP Expedition 307 drilling of the Challenger Mound (eastern Porcupine Seabight; NE Atlantic) not only retrieved the first complete developmental history of a coral carbonate mound, it also exposed a unique, Early-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of exceptional resolution along the mid-latitudinal NE Atlantic margin. In this study, a comprehensive assessment of the Challenger Mound as an archive of Quaternary palaeo-environmental change and long-term coral carbonate mound development is presented. New and existing environmental proxy records, including clay mineralogy, planktonic foraminifer and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and assemblage counts, planktonic foraminifer oxygen isotopes and siliciclastic particle-size, are thereby discussed within a refined chronostratigraphic and climatic context. Overall, the development of the Challenger Mound shows a strong affinity to the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Northern Hemisphere climate system, albeit not being completely in phase with it. The two major oceanographic and climatic transitions of the Plio-Pleistocene – the Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene intensification of continental ice-sheet development and the mid-Pleistocene transition to the more extremely variable and more extensively glaciated late Quaternary – mark two major thresholds in Challenger Mound development: its Late Pliocene (>2.74 Ma) origin and its Middle–Late Pleistocene to recent decline. Distinct surface-water perturbations (i.e. water-mass/polar front migrations, productivity changes, melt-water pulses) are identified throughout the sequence, which can be linked to the intensity and extent of ice development on the nearby British–Irish Isles since the earliest Pleistocene. Glaciation-induced shifts in surface-water primary ... |
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Thierens, M. Browning, E. Pirlet, H. Loutre, M.-F. Dorschel, B. Huvenne, V.A.I. Titschack, J. Colin, C. Foubert, A. Wheeler, A.J. Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic) |
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cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the plio-pleistocene challenger mound record (ne atlantic) |
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Thierens, M., Browning, E., Pirlet, H., Loutre, M.-F., Dorschel, B., Huvenne, V.A.I., Titschack, J., Colin, C., Foubert, A. and Wheeler, A.J. (2013) Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic). Quaternary Science Reviews, 73, 14-30. (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006>). |
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