Circum-Antarctic age modelling of Quaternary marine cores under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: ice-core dust-magnetic correlation

Pugh, R.S.; McCave, I.N.; Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-7317; Kuhn, G.. 2009 Circum-Antarctic age modelling of Quaternary marine cores under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: ice-core dust-magnetic correlation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284 (1-2). 113-123. 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.016

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Abstract/Summary

Sediments in the belt under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) contain high quantities of siliceous microfossils (mainly diatoms) and very little to zero carbonate. This prevents establishment of the age by the usual methods of oxygen isotope stratigraphy at most coring sites. Downcore variation in magnetic susceptibility (MS) from cores from the Scotia Sea closely resembles the temporal pattern of dust concentration and flux in East Antarctic ice cores. The validity of the temporal correlation between marine MS and EPICA Dome C (EDC) dust on the EDC3 time scale is established through C-14 dating of the acid insoluble organic matter back to 30 ka, and radiolarian abundance stratigraphy of Cycladophora davisiana back to 180 ka. The correlations are good (r>0.80) and give credence to the use of MS-dust as a means of establishing chronostratigraphy in carbonate-free pelagic sediments from the Southern Ocean. This correlation has been established in >10 cores in the Scotia Sea. The circum-Antarctic validity of the pattern is shown in correlations to MS in sediment cores from the Indian and SW Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean. During MIS 3 (57-29 ka), when sedimentation rates at correlated core sites exceeded 10 cm ka(-1). three MS maxima in the marine sediments and dust peaks at EDC, respectively, correspond to the cool periods between Antarctic warm events A1-A4. We have not established the precise cause of the correlation. but its validity around the circum-Antarctic west wind belt suggests that the material was either all transported by wind or was supplemented by wind-driven current transport. The fact that it occurs also in sections with a low terrigenous content suggests a fine grained, high-susceptibility material such as magnetite as the likely source. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.016
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Climate and Chemistry - Forcings and Phasings in the Earth System
ISSN:	0012-821X
NORA Subject Terms:	Marine Sciences Glaciology Earth Sciences
Date made live:	11 Nov 2010 10:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11182

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.016

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System
BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Climate and Chemistry - Forcings and Phasings in the Earth System

ISSN:

0012-821X

NORA Subject Terms:

Marine Sciences
Glaciology
Earth Sciences

Date made live:

11 Nov 2010 10:21 +0 (UTC)