Holocene 231Pa/230Th ratios, Uranium isotopes and biogenic Opal concentrations from four North Atlantic sediment cores and Generalized Additive Model

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To investigate the variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) during the Holocene in the North Atlantic, we analyzed radioisotopes (230Th, 231Pa, 232Th, 234U, and 238U) in sediment samples from four core sites (ODP 172-1063, ODP 172-1059, ODP 162-983, and GeoB18529-2) with millennial-scale temporal resolution. From these measurements, we calculated 231Pa/230Th ratios. The isotope analyses were conducted using three instruments: a Neptune Plus MC-ICP-MS equipped with a retarding potential quadrupole filter at the Geozentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich–Alexander University, Erlangen; an ELEMENT ICP-MS at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven; and an iCAP TQe ICP-MS at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University.To assess the influence of biogenic opal (bOpal) concentrations on the 231Pa/230Th ratios, we measured bOpal concentrations from the same samples. These measurements followed an automated protocol for dissolved silica analysis using molybdate-blue spectrophotometry, conducted at Heidelberg University.The dataset includes estimates of mean sub-millennial AMOC strength in the North Atlantic, derived from the combined sedimentary 231Pa/230Th data. Using AMOC- 231Pa/230Th relationships from the Bern3D Earth system model, we converted the 231Pa/230Th ratios from all cores into a unified time series of past AMOC strength (expressed in Sverdrups, Sv) and applied a generalized additive model (GAM) fit for trend analysis.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.980736
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Creator Gerber, Lukas ORCID logo; Lippold, Jörg ORCID logo; Süfke, Finn ORCID logo; Valk, Ole ORCID logo; Testorf, Pierre; Ehnis, Manuel; Tautenhahn, Saskia; Max, Lars ORCID logo; Chiessi, Cristiano Mazur ORCID logo; Regelous, Marcel ORCID logo; Szidat, Sönke ORCID logo; Friedrich, Oliver ORCID logo; Pöppelmeier, Frerk ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 Crossref Funder ID 305285/2025-4 ; Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 Crossref Funder ID 406898/2022-7 ; Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 Crossref Funder ID 49558SM ; Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 Crossref Funder ID 8881.712022/2022-1 ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 277128673 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/277128673?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=277128673 Quantitative Rekonstruktion der Ozeanzirkulation; European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID 101023443 https://doi.org/10.3030/101023443 Comprehensive Climate Modeling of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001807 Crossref Funder ID 2018/15123–4
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Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-75.419W, 31.674S, -23.641E, 60.403N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1995-07-21T11:58:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-14T03:32:00Z