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17.01.2022: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Colloquium
Dr. Heather Ford, Queen Mary University of London, London, England: "The mid-Pleistocene Enigma: detangling regional and global signals in seawater δ18O records"
When? Monday, 17. January 2022 at 11 am
Where? ZOOM meeting room: https://geomar-de.zoom.us/j/82704825582?pwd=a1BoYUZGeCtEc3ZxbFhRZjhLSDhpQT09
Meeting-ID: 827 0482 5582
Kenncode: 070402
High-resolution seawater δ18O records, derived from coupled Mg/Ca and benthic foraminifera δ18O analyses, can be used to evaluate how global ice volume changed during the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, ca. 1250–600 ka). However, such seawater δ18O records are also influenced by regional hydrographic signals (i.e., salinity) and changes in deep-ocean circulation across the MPT, making it difficult to isolate the timing and magnitude of the global ice volume change. To explore regional and global patterns in seawater δ18O records, we reconstruct seawater δ18O from coupled Mg/Ca and δ18O analyses of Uvigerina spp. at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1208 in the North Pacific Ocean. Comparison of individual seawater δ18O records suggests that deep-ocean circulation reorganized and the formation properties (i.e., salinity) of deep-ocean water masses changed at ca. 900 ka, likely related to the transition to marine-based ice sheets in Antarctica. We also find that an increase in ice volume likely accompanied the shift in glacial-interglacial periodicity observed in benthic carbonate δ18O across the MPT, with increases in ice volume observed during Marine Isotope Stages 22 and 16.
