Matul, A.; Barash, M.S.; Khusid, T.A.; Behera, P.; Tiwari, M. Paleoenvironment Variability during Termination I at the Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic. Geosciences2018, 8, 375.
Matul, A.; Barash, M.S.; Khusid, T.A.; Behera, P.; Tiwari, M. Paleoenvironment Variability during Termination I at the Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic. Geosciences 2018, 8, 375.
Matul, A.; Barash, M.S.; Khusid, T.A.; Behera, P.; Tiwari, M. Paleoenvironment Variability during Termination I at the Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic. Geosciences2018, 8, 375.
Matul, A.; Barash, M.S.; Khusid, T.A.; Behera, P.; Tiwari, M. Paleoenvironment Variability during Termination I at the Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic. Geosciences 2018, 8, 375.
Abstract
The micropaleontological study (radiolarians and foraminifera) of the sediment core AMK-340, Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic, combined with the radiocarbon dating and Oxygen/Carbon isotopic record, provided data for the reconstruction of the summer paleotemperature on the water depth of 100 m, and paleoenvironments during the Termination I in the age interval of 14.5–8 ka. The response of the main microfossil species on the paleoceanographic changes within the Bølling-Allerød (BA) warming, the Younger Dryas (YD) cold event, and final transition to the warm Holocene was different. The BA warming was well reflected in the radiolarian and benthic but not planktic foraminiferal record. The high abundances of the cold-water radiolarian species Amphimelissa setosa as the Greenland/Iceland Sea indicator marked a cooling at the end of the BA and within the start of the YD at 13.2–12.3 ka. The micropaleontological and isotopic data together with the paleotemperature estimates for the Reykjanes Ridge at 60° N document that, after the warm BA, the middle YD ca. 12.5–12.2 ka was the next significant step toward the Holocene warming. Start of the Holocene interglacial conditions was reflected in abundant occurrence of the microfossils being indicators of the open boreal North Atlantic environments and lower oxygen isotope values indicating increasing warmth.
Keywords
global warming and environmental change; Late Quaternary paleoenvironments; Termination I; sea-water paleotemperature; marine microfossils; North Atlantic; stable isotopes
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Paleontology
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