(Table S1) Globigerinoides sacculifer Boron isotope ratios of ODP Hole 165-999A

everal hypotheses have been put forward to explain the onset of intensive glaciations on Greenland, Scandinavia, and North America during the Pliocene epoch between 3.6 and 2.7 million years ago (Ma). A decrease in atmospheric CO2 may have played a role during the onset of glaciations, but other tectonic and oceanic events occurring at the same time may have played a part as well. Here we present detailed atmospheric CO2 estimates from boron isotopes in planktic foraminifer shells spanning 4.6-2.0 Ma. Maximal Pliocene atmospheric CO2 estimates gradually declined from values around 410 µatm to early Pleistocene values of 300 matm at 2.0 Ma. After the onset of large-scale ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere, maximal pCO2 estimates were still at 2.5 Ma +90 µatm higher than values characteristic of the early Pleistocene interglacials. By contrast, Pliocene minimal atmospheric CO2 gradually decreased from 310 to 245 µatm at 3.2 Ma, coinciding with the start of transient glaciations on Greenland. Values characteristic of early Pleistocene glacial atmospheric CO2 of 200 matm were abruptly reached after 2.7 Ma during the late Pliocene transition. This trend is consistent with the suggestion that ocean stratification and iron fertilization increased after 2.7 Ma in the North Pacific and Southern Ocean and may have led to increased glacial CO2 storage in the oceanic abyss after 2.7 Ma onward.

DEPTH, sediment/rock is given in mbsf.

Supplement to: Bartoli, Gretta; Hönisch, Bärbel; Zeebe, Richard E (2011): Atmospheric CO2 decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations. Paleoceanography, 26(4), PA4213

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.829486
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43018.d001
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002055
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.829486
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Creator Bartoli, Gretta; Hönisch, Bärbel; Zeebe, Richard E
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2011
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 659 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-78.739 LON, 12.744 LAT); Caribbean Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 1996-01-10T19:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1996-01-14T23:15:00Z