Alkenone accumulation rates, stable carbon isotope record, and sea surface temperature reconstruction for IODP Site 306-U1313

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Autores principales: Naafs, Bernhard David A, Hefter, Jens, Acton, Gary D, Haug, Gerald H, Martínez-García, Alfredo, Pancost, Richard D, Stein, Ruediger
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author Naafs, Bernhard David A
Hefter, Jens
Acton, Gary D
Haug, Gerald H
Martínez-García, Alfredo
Pancost, Richard D
Stein, Ruediger
author_facet Naafs, Bernhard David A
Hefter, Jens
Acton, Gary D
Haug, Gerald H
Martínez-García, Alfredo
Pancost, Richard D
Stein, Ruediger
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Here we present orbitally-resolved records of terrestrial higher plant leaf wax input to the North Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma, based on the accumulation of long-chain n-alkanes and n-alkanl-1-ols at IODP Site U1313. These lipids are a major component of dust, even in remote ocean areas, and have a predominantly aeolian origin in distal marine sediments. Our results demonstrate that around 2.7 million years ago (Ma), coinciding with the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG), the aeolian input of terrestrial material to the North Atlantic increased drastically. Since then, during every glacial the aeolian input of higher plant material was up to 30 times higher than during interglacials. The close correspondence between aeolian input to the North Atlantic and other dust records indicates a globally uniform response of dust sources to Quaternary climate variability, although the amplitude of variation differs among areas. We argue that the increased aeolian input at Site U1313 during glacials is predominantly related to the episodic appearance of continental ice sheets in North America and the associated strengthening of glaciogenic dust sources. Evolutional spectral analyses of the n-alkane records were therefore used to determine the dominant astronomical forcing in North American ice sheet advances. These results demonstrate that during the early Pleistocene North American ice sheet dynamics responded predominantly to variations in obliquity (41 ka), which argues against previous suggestions of precession-related variations in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the early Pleistocene.
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spellingShingle Alkenone accumulation rates, stable carbon isotope record, and sea surface temperature reconstruction for IODP Site 306-U1313
Naafs, Bernhard David A
Hefter, Jens
Acton, Gary D
Haug, Gerald H
Martínez-García, Alfredo
Pancost, Richard D
Stein, Ruediger
306-U1313; 306-U1313A; 306-U1313C; 306-U1313D; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Exp306; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; Joides Resolution; North Atlantic Climate 2
Here we present orbitally-resolved records of terrestrial higher plant leaf wax input to the North Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma, based on the accumulation of long-chain n-alkanes and n-alkanl-1-ols at IODP Site U1313. These lipids are a major component of dust, even in remote ocean areas, and have a predominantly aeolian origin in distal marine sediments. Our results demonstrate that around 2.7 million years ago (Ma), coinciding with the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG), the aeolian input of terrestrial material to the North Atlantic increased drastically. Since then, during every glacial the aeolian input of higher plant material was up to 30 times higher than during interglacials. The close correspondence between aeolian input to the North Atlantic and other dust records indicates a globally uniform response of dust sources to Quaternary climate variability, although the amplitude of variation differs among areas. We argue that the increased aeolian input at Site U1313 during glacials is predominantly related to the episodic appearance of continental ice sheets in North America and the associated strengthening of glaciogenic dust sources. Evolutional spectral analyses of the n-alkane records were therefore used to determine the dominant astronomical forcing in North American ice sheet advances. These results demonstrate that during the early Pleistocene North American ice sheet dynamics responded predominantly to variations in obliquity (41 ka), which argues against previous suggestions of precession-related variations in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the early Pleistocene.
title Alkenone accumulation rates, stable carbon isotope record, and sea surface temperature reconstruction for IODP Site 306-U1313
topic 306-U1313; 306-U1313A; 306-U1313C; 306-U1313D; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Exp306; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; Joides Resolution; North Atlantic Climate 2
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757951