Age models and stable isotopes of sediment cores from the northern seas

Oxygen and carbon isotope measurements were carried out on tests of planktic foraminifers N. pachyderma (sin.) from eight sediment cores taken from the eastern Arctic Ocean, the Fram Strait, and the lceland Sea, in order to reconstruct Arctic Ocean and Norwegian-Greenland Sea circulation patterns and ice covers during the last 130,000 years. In addition, the influence of ice, temperature and salinity effects on the isotopic signal was quantified. Isotope measurements on foraminifers from sediment surface samples were used to elucidate the ecology of N. pachyderma (sin.). Changes in the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of N. pachyderma (sin.) from sediment surface samples document the horizontal and vertical changes of water mass boundaries controlled by water temperature and salinity, because N. pachyderma (sin.) shows drastic changes in depth habitats, depending on the water mass properties. It was able to be shown that in the investigated areas a regional and spatial apparent increase of the ice effect occurred. This happened especially during the termination I by direct advection of meltwaters from nearby continents or during the termination and in interglacials by supply of isotopically light water from rivers. A northwardly proceeding overprint of the 'global' ice effect, increasing from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea to the Arctic Ocean, was not able to be demonstrated. By means of a model the influence of temperature and salinity on the global ice volume signal during the last 130,000 years was recorded. In combination with the results of this study, the model was the basis for a reconstruction of the paleoceanographic development of the Arctic Ocean and the Norwegian-Greenland Sea during this time interval. The conception of a relatively thick and permanent sea ice cover in the Nordic Seas during glacial times should be replaced by the model of a seasonally and regionally highly variable ice cover. Only during isotope stage 5e may there have been a local deep water formation in the Fram Strait.

Supplement to: Köhler, Sabine E I (1992): Spätquartäre paläo-ozeanographische Entwicklung des Nordpolarmeeres anhand von Sauerstoff- und Kohlenstoff-Isotopenverhältnissen der planktischen Foraminifere. GEOMAR Report, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, 13, 104 pp

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728605
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.33412.d001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.728605
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Creator Köhler, Sabine E I
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1992
Funding Reference Fourth Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011105 Crossref Funder ID MAS3980185 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/MAS3980185 Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 31 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-31.072W, 60.090S, 32.053E, 86.132N); Norwegian Sea; Voering Plateau; Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland; Voring Plateau; Fram Strait; Iceland Sea; Svalbard; Nansen Basin; Arctic Ocean; Antarctic Ocean; Yermak Plateau; Kolbeinsey Ridge
Temporal Coverage Begin 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1990-06-17T04:05:00Z