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| author | Lyle, Mitchell W Dadey, Kathleen A Farrell, John W |
| author_facet | Lyle, Mitchell W Dadey, Kathleen A Farrell, John W |
| collection | Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales |
| contents | In the eastern and central Pacific Ocean the most profound change in Neogene calcium carbonate deposition occurred at the late/middle Miocene boundary (about 10 Ma), when carbonate mass accumulation rates (MARs) abruptly dropped. East of the East Pacific Rise (EPR), carbonate deposition essentially ceased. The carbonate compensation depth (CCD) in the Guatemala Basin, for example, rose by 800 m in less than 0.5 Ma. Even the rise crests suffered carbonate losses - Site 846, at the time less than 300 meters deeper than the EPR axis, experienced intervals between 10 and 9 Ma where no carbonate at all was buried. By about 8 Ma carbonate deposition resumed and was concentrated along an equatorial band, suggestive of high surface water carbonate production. East of the EPR, however, CCDs remained shallow since 10 Ma. This event which we have termed the late Miocene carbonate crash marks a fundamental paleoceanographic change that occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Here, we document the changing pattern of carbonate deposition from 13 Ma to 5 Ma by using maps of carbonate MAR reconstructed from ODP Leg 138 and DSDP data. Comparisons to modern oceanographic conditions demonstrate that the late Miocene carbonate crash could not have been caused by an abrupt increase in productivity at 10 Ma or by loss of Corg from continental shelves. Instead it was probably caused by a relatively small reduction in deep-water exchange between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Panama Gateway prior to the emergence of the isthmus. A small restriction of deep-water exchange through this gateway is sufficient to radically change carbonate MARs in the eastern Pacific. |
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| spellingShingle | Carbonate content and accumulation in eastern Pacific Ocean sediments Lyle, Mitchell W Dadey, Kathleen A Farrell, John W Ocean Drilling Program; ODP In the eastern and central Pacific Ocean the most profound change in Neogene calcium carbonate deposition occurred at the late/middle Miocene boundary (about 10 Ma), when carbonate mass accumulation rates (MARs) abruptly dropped. East of the East Pacific Rise (EPR), carbonate deposition essentially ceased. The carbonate compensation depth (CCD) in the Guatemala Basin, for example, rose by 800 m in less than 0.5 Ma. Even the rise crests suffered carbonate losses - Site 846, at the time less than 300 meters deeper than the EPR axis, experienced intervals between 10 and 9 Ma where no carbonate at all was buried. By about 8 Ma carbonate deposition resumed and was concentrated along an equatorial band, suggestive of high surface water carbonate production. East of the EPR, however, CCDs remained shallow since 10 Ma. This event which we have termed the late Miocene carbonate crash marks a fundamental paleoceanographic change that occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Here, we document the changing pattern of carbonate deposition from 13 Ma to 5 Ma by using maps of carbonate MAR reconstructed from ODP Leg 138 and DSDP data. Comparisons to modern oceanographic conditions demonstrate that the late Miocene carbonate crash could not have been caused by an abrupt increase in productivity at 10 Ma or by loss of Corg from continental shelves. Instead it was probably caused by a relatively small reduction in deep-water exchange between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Panama Gateway prior to the emergence of the isthmus. A small restriction of deep-water exchange through this gateway is sufficient to radically change carbonate MARs in the eastern Pacific. |
| title | Carbonate content and accumulation in eastern Pacific Ocean sediments |
| topic | Ocean Drilling Program; ODP |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809037 |