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Main Authors: Taylor, Meghan A, Hendy, Ingrid L, Pak, Dorothy K
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Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 2014
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.835607
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author Taylor, Meghan A
Hendy, Ingrid L
Pak, Dorothy K
author_facet Taylor, Meghan A
Hendy, Ingrid L
Pak, Dorothy K
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents A new, high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-based ocean temperature record has been generated for deep sea core MD02-2496, sited offshore of Vancouver Island, Western Canada during the last deglaciation (21-12 ka). The relationship between Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) retreat and changing regional ocean temperatures has been reconstructed through glaciomarine sediments in MD02-2496 that capture tidewater glacier response to surface ocean thermal forcing. At CIS maximum extent, the marine margin of the ice sheet advanced onto the continental shelf. During this interval, ocean temperatures recorded by surface ocean dwelling Globigerina bulloides remained a relatively constant ~7.5°C while subsurface dwelling Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (s.) recorded temperatures of ~5°C. These ocean temperatures were sufficiently warm to induce significant melt along the tidewater ice terminus similar to modern Alaskan tidewater glacial systems. During the deglacial retreat of the CIS, the N. pachyderma temperature record shows two distinct warming steps of ~2 and 2.5°C between 17.2-16 and 15.5-14 ka respectively, coincident with ice rafting events from the CIS, while G. bulloides records an ~3°C warming from 15 to14 ka. We hypothesize that submarine melting resulting from relatively warm ocean temperatures was an important process driving ice removal from CIS tidewater glaciers during the initial stages of deglaciation.
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spellingShingle Mg/Ca values for planktonic foraminifera N. pachyderma and G. bulloides from ocean sediment core MD02-2496 on the Vancouver margin, Northeastern Pacific Ocean
Taylor, Meghan A
Hendy, Ingrid L
Pak, Dorothy K
British Columbia Margin; Giant piston corer; GPC; IMAGES VIII - MONA; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD022496; MD02-2496; MD126
A new, high-resolution planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-based ocean temperature record has been generated for deep sea core MD02-2496, sited offshore of Vancouver Island, Western Canada during the last deglaciation (21-12 ka). The relationship between Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) retreat and changing regional ocean temperatures has been reconstructed through glaciomarine sediments in MD02-2496 that capture tidewater glacier response to surface ocean thermal forcing. At CIS maximum extent, the marine margin of the ice sheet advanced onto the continental shelf. During this interval, ocean temperatures recorded by surface ocean dwelling Globigerina bulloides remained a relatively constant ~7.5°C while subsurface dwelling Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (s.) recorded temperatures of ~5°C. These ocean temperatures were sufficiently warm to induce significant melt along the tidewater ice terminus similar to modern Alaskan tidewater glacial systems. During the deglacial retreat of the CIS, the N. pachyderma temperature record shows two distinct warming steps of ~2 and 2.5°C between 17.2-16 and 15.5-14 ka respectively, coincident with ice rafting events from the CIS, while G. bulloides records an ~3°C warming from 15 to14 ka. We hypothesize that submarine melting resulting from relatively warm ocean temperatures was an important process driving ice removal from CIS tidewater glaciers during the initial stages of deglaciation.
title Mg/Ca values for planktonic foraminifera N. pachyderma and G. bulloides from ocean sediment core MD02-2496 on the Vancouver margin, Northeastern Pacific Ocean
topic British Columbia Margin; Giant piston corer; GPC; IMAGES VIII - MONA; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD022496; MD02-2496; MD126
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.835607