The collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over Hudson Bay ∼8.47 ka allowed the rapid drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz into the Labrador Sea, an event identified as causing a reduction in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the 8.2 ka cold event. Atmosphere‐ocean models simulations based on this forcing,...
The primary Mg/Ca ratio of foraminiferal shells is a potentially valuable paleoproxy for sea surface
temperature (SST) reconstructions. However, the reliable extraction of this ratio from sedimentary calcite
assumes that we can overcome artifacts related to foraminiferal ecology and partial dissolution, as well as
contamination by secondary calcite and clay....
Mg/Ca ratios in planktonic foraminifera reflect calcification temperatures and are thus useful for sea
surface temperature (SST) reconstructions. Despite the obvious utility of this paleoceanographic tracer,
problems of dissolution, gametogenic calcification, and contaminant phases have thus far limited
confidence in Mg/Ca-based reconstructions. Here we show strong evidence of Mg heterogeneity...
Multiproxy geologic records of δ18O and Mg/Ca in fossil foraminifera from sediments under the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool (EPWP) region west of Central America document variations in upper ocean temperature, pycnocline strength, and salinity (i.e., net precipitation) over the past 30 kyr. Although evident in the paleotemperature record, there is...
The Younger Dryas cold interval represents a time when much of the Northern Hemisphere cooled from ≈12.9 to 11.5 kiloyears B.P. The cause of this event, which has long been viewed as the canonical example of abrupt climate change, was initially attributed to the routing of freshwater to the St....
The isotopic composition of the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) collected at sites of active methane discharge on Hydrate Ridge, Oregon, reveals anaerobic methane oxidation mediated by bacteria, with δ13CDIC reaching values as low as –48‰ in the upper 4 cm of the sediment. In spite of the high sulfide levels...
It has been recognized since the 1950's that radioisotopic disequilibrium between naturally occurring parent-daughter isotope pairs in seawater can provide information on the rate of processes segregating them. In the surface ocean, the U-238:Th-234 parent-daughter pair tends to display measurable disequilibrium that is attributable to the effects of scavenging on...