Neodymium evidence for increased circumpolar deep water flow to the North Pacific during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition

Kender, Sev; Bogus, Kara A.; Cobb, Ty D.; Thomas, Deborah J.. 2018 Neodymium evidence for increased circumpolar deep water flow to the North Pacific during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33 (7). 672-682. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003309

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Abstract/Summary

Low salinity surface water inhibits local deepwater formation in the modern North Pacific. Instead, southern-sourced Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) fills the basin, which is the product of water masses formed from cold sinking centers in the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic. This CDW is responsible for transporting a significant amount of global heat and dissolved carbon in the deep Pacific Ocean. The history of its flow and the broader overturning circulation are widely assumed to be sensitive to climate perturbations. However, insufficient records exist of CDW presence in the deep North Pacific with which to evaluate its evolution and role in major climate transitions of the past 23 Ma. Here we report sedimentary coatings and fish teeth neodymium isotope values—tracers for water-mass mixing—from deepwater International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1438 (4.7 km water depth) in the Philippine Sea, northwest Pacific Ocean. Our results indicate the water mass shifted from a North Pacific source in the early Miocene to a southern source by ~14 Ma. Within the age model and temporal constraints, this major reorganization of North Pacific water mass structure may have coincided with ice sheet build up on Antarctica and is most consistent with an increased northward flux ofCDWdue to enhanced sinking of cold water forced by Antarctic cooling. The northward extent of this flux may have remained relatively constant during much of the past 14Ma.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003309
ISSN:	25724517
Date made live:	25 Jul 2018 11:02 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520593

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003309

ISSN:

25724517

Date made live:

25 Jul 2018 11:02 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520593