Dansgaard-Oeschger and heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

Past sea surface temperature (SST) evolution in the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean) during the last 50,000 years has been inferred from the study of C-37 alkenones in International Marine Global Change Studies MD952043 core. This record has a time resolution of similar to 200 years allowing the...

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Published in:Paleoceanography
Main Authors: Cacho, Isabel, Grimalt, Joan O., Pelejero, Carles, Canals, Miquel, Sierro, Francisco, Flores, Jose Abel, Shackleton, Nicholas J.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Amer Geophysical Union 1999
Subjects:
envir
geo
Greenland
Dansgaard-Oeschger events
Greenland Ice Sheet Project
Ice Sheet
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/1999PA900044
https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00239/35044/36810.pdf
https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00239/35044/
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Summary:Past sea surface temperature (SST) evolution in the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean) during the last 50,000 years has been inferred from the study of C-37 alkenones in International Marine Global Change Studies MD952043 core. This record has a time resolution of similar to 200 years allowing the study of millennial-scale and even shorter climatic changes. The observed SST curve displays characteristic sequences of extremely rapid warming and cooling events along the glacial period. Comparison of this Alboran record with delta(18)O from Greenland ice (Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 core) shows a strong parallelism between these SST oscillations and the Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Five prominent cooling episodes standing out in the SST profile are accompanied by an anomalous high abundance of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma sinistral which is confined to the duration of these cold intervals. These features and the isotopic record reflect drastic changes in the surface hydrography of the Alboran Sea in association with Heinrich events H1-5.

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