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    ISSN: 1751-8369
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geography , Geosciences
    Notes: To compare north and south polar marine paleoenvironments over the last 30,000 years, comparable chronological (radiocarbon) records must be developed and refined. Many areas in the polar regions do not preserve marine carbonates (foraminifera, mollusks), and thus age determinations, of necessity, are based on the acid-insoluble organic (AIO) fraction of the sediment. Although AIO ages are problematic and rarely used in the Arctic, they provide reasonable and consistent chronologies for the Ross Sea, Antarctica. AIO dates are meaningful in the Ross Sea because there are relatively high levels of productivity, good preservation of marine biogenic material in the sediment, and little input of terrigenous sediment and old/dead carbon. Event stratigraphy based upon proxy records of biogenic silica and δ13C can be used to assess the reliability of the AIO dates and surface age corrections. Reconstructed time-series of changes in the biogenic silica content of cores from the western Ross Sea show apparent similarities with the ‘classic’deglacial climate sequence of the northern North Atlantic. Once the absolute ages of the antarctic AIO dates are constrained by independently dated records to validate surface age corrections, it will be possible to directly compare the timing of events such as ice-rafting events in the sedimentary record.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Polar research 8 (1990), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1751-8369
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geography , Geosciences
    Notes: Paleomagnetic measurements are reported from 11 piston cores, from the fiords and shelf of eastern Baffin Island, N.W.T., between latitudes 66 and 72 degrees north. The majority of the measurements arc from bioturbated, massive, or laminated mud, with some drop-stones and graded sand beds. Corrected radiocarbon dates on the acid-insoluble organic matter fraction, supplemented by AMS dates on in situbivalves, indicate that all cores extend into the early Holocene, and three extend into the latest Pleistocene Sedimentation rates averaged between 0.2m/ka and 1.4m/ka. Because of varying sedimentation rates, the depth scales are converted to 100 or 200 yr/sample time series. The results indicate a scries of geomagnetic secular oscillations with amplitudes in inclination of c. 10 degrees. A stacked record from four piston cores suggests seven major oscillations in inclination. Times when inclinations consistently exceeded 80° occurred c. 1,400, 4,500, and 8,000 B.P. The most characteristic oscillation occurred c.1,400 ± B.P., when inclinations were nearly vertical. Inclination errors are associated with gravity flows and/or with an increase in sand content, or changes in physical properties. In one core an interval of reverse polarity is attributed to a slump.
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2020-02-06
    Description: An important tool for deep-sea temperature reconstruction is Mg/Ca paleothermometry applied to benthic foraminifera. Foraminifera of the genus Melonis appear to be promising candidates for temperature reconstructions due to their wide geographical and bathymetric distribution, and their infaunal habitat, which was suggested to reduce secondary effects from carbonate ion saturation (Δ[CO3 2−]). Here, we make substantial advances to previous calibration efforts and present new multi-lab Mg/Ca data for Melonis barleeanum and Melonis pompilioides from more than one hundred core top samples spanning in situ bottom temperatures from −1 to 16 °C, coupled with morphometric analyses of the foraminifer tests. Both species and their morphotypes seem to have a similar response of Mg/Ca to growth temperature. Compilation of new and previously published data reveals a linear dependence of temperature on Mg/Ca, with a best fit of Mg/Ca (mmol/mol) = 0.113 ± 0.005 ∗ BWT (°C) + 0.792 ± 0.036 (r2 = 0.81; n = 120; 1σ SD). Salinity, bottom water Δ[CO3 2−], and varying morphotypes have no apparent effect on the Mg/Ca-temperature relationship, but pore water Δ[CO3 2−] might have had an influence on some of the samples from the tropical Atlantic.
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2016-04-08
    Description: Clay- and silt-size mineral assemblages are described from eight piston cores from the fiords and shelf on the western margin of Baffin Bay, Arctic Canada. Radiocarbon dates indicate that all the cores extend back in time to the last local glacial/interglacial transition (i.e. 8–10 ka); four extend back to between 10 and 12 ka, and HU77-021-156, located on the Southeast Baffin Island shelf, includes the entire late Foxe glacial stage. Silt- and clay-size particles constitute ca 40 and 55%, respectively, by weight of the bulk sediment. The clay-size fraction is dominated by mica; feldspars and quartz are the main constituents of the silt fraction. The fiord sediments are mainly composed of local mineralogies, but on the shelf, and at times in the fiords, exotic mineral species occur. The most important of these are detrital carbonates, derived from erosion of the Paleozoic basins in Arctic Canada and/or northwest Greenland. Both calcite and dolomite occur; calcite is the major carbonate mineral in the “southern” cores, whereas dolomite is the most abundant in cores north of 66°N. Higher inputs of carbonate species occur during regional deglaciation, 7–10 ka, and during the last 5 ka (probably reflecting increased iceberg production from northwest Greenland). Thus variations in the precentages of the carbonate minerals indicate significant shifts in Late Quaternary glacial-sediment source areas and oceanographic regimes.
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    Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
    In:  The Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 34 (3). pp. 180-207.
    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
    Description: Surface sediment samples for analysis of modern foraminiferal assemblages were collected from 32 sites on the western and northern Iceland shelf during cruise B997 of the Icelandic ship Bjarni Saemundsson. The purpose of the study is to provide a basis for interpreting the variations in foraminiferal content in late glacial through Holocene sediments from cores at the same sites. Cluster analysis and principal components analysis of the benthic foraminiferal data and associated modern environmental parameters including hydrography, water depth, and sediment characteristics show that large progressive changes in the foraminiferal assemblages coincide with changes in the dominant oceanic surface currents and water masses around Iceland. The western areas of the shelf are overlain by relatively warm and saline Atlantic Water of the Irminger Current. The western shelf fauna is dominated by Cassidulina laevigata and other boreal species, whereas the planktic fauna is dominated by dextrally coiling Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. In Djúpáll, off the Northwest Peninsula, and in the shallow nearshore sites on the northern shelf, the boreal elements of the fauna diminish and arctic species become more important. However, the dominant species in these areas are Cibicides lobatulus and Astrononion gallowayi, attesting to winnowing of the shallow shelf areas by currents. In Isafjardardjúp, the large fjord indenting the Northwest Peninsula, Cassidulina reniforme and Elphidium excavatum dominate the fauna as a result of cooler waters and more variable salinity conditions. A very large faunal shift is registered in the deep basins of the northern shelf. This faunal shift coincides with large changes in salinity and temperature stratification of the water column, reflecting the presence of the East Iceland Current. The fauna in the deep basins on the northern shelf are dominated by C. neoteretis, an indicator of modified Atlantic Water, and infaunal species that reflect organic fluxes to the seabed: Nonionellina labradorica and Melonis barleeanus, and the arctic species Islandiella norcrossi and I. helenae.
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