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author Köhler, Cornelia M
Krijgsman, Wout
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J
Heslop, David
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
author_facet Köhler, Cornelia M
Krijgsman, Wout
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J
Heslop, David
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents The upper Tortonian Metochia marls on the island of Gavdos provide an ideal geological archive to trace variations in Aegean sediment supply as well as changes in the North African monsoon system. A fuzzy-cluster analysis on the multiproxy geochemical and rock magnetic dataset of the astronomically tuned sedimentary succession shows a dramatic shift in the dominance of 'Aegean tectonic' clusters to 'North African climate' clusters. The tectonic signature, traced by the starvation of the Cretan sediment, now enables to date the late Tortonian basin foundering on Crete, related to the tectonic break-up of the Aegean landmass, at c. 8.2 Ma. The synchronous decrease in the North African climate proxies is interpreted to indicate a change in the depositional conditions of the sink rather than a climatic change in the African source. This illustrates that interpretations of climate proxies require a multiproxy approach which also assesses possible contributions of regional tectonism.
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spellingShingle (Appendix A) Sedimentation rate, geochemical and environmental magnetic proxies of the samples of the Metochia section, on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete
Köhler, Cornelia M
Krijgsman, Wout
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J
Heslop, David
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
Accumulation rate, mass; AGE; Aluminium; ARM, Intensity after demagnetization; Calcium; Calcium carbonate; Calculated, see reference(s); Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; Chromium; Gavdos; HAND; Hard isothermal remanent magnetization; Manganese/Aluminium ratio; MARUM; Metochia-section; Nickel; Sampling by hand; Sedimentation rate; see reference(s); Titanium/Aluminium ratio
The upper Tortonian Metochia marls on the island of Gavdos provide an ideal geological archive to trace variations in Aegean sediment supply as well as changes in the North African monsoon system. A fuzzy-cluster analysis on the multiproxy geochemical and rock magnetic dataset of the astronomically tuned sedimentary succession shows a dramatic shift in the dominance of 'Aegean tectonic' clusters to 'North African climate' clusters. The tectonic signature, traced by the starvation of the Cretan sediment, now enables to date the late Tortonian basin foundering on Crete, related to the tectonic break-up of the Aegean landmass, at c. 8.2 Ma. The synchronous decrease in the North African climate proxies is interpreted to indicate a change in the depositional conditions of the sink rather than a climatic change in the African source. This illustrates that interpretations of climate proxies require a multiproxy approach which also assesses possible contributions of regional tectonism.
title (Appendix A) Sedimentation rate, geochemical and environmental magnetic proxies of the samples of the Metochia section, on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete
topic Accumulation rate, mass; AGE; Aluminium; ARM, Intensity after demagnetization; Calcium; Calcium carbonate; Calculated, see reference(s); Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; Chromium; Gavdos; HAND; Hard isothermal remanent magnetization; Manganese/Aluminium ratio; MARUM; Metochia-section; Nickel; Sampling by hand; Sedimentation rate; see reference(s); Titanium/Aluminium ratio
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.733305