Deglacial pulses of deep-ocean silicate into the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

A. N. Meckler (), D. M. Sigman, K. A. Gibson, R. François, A. Martínez-García, S. L. Jaccard, U. Röhl, L. C. Peterson, R. Tiedemann and G. H. Haug
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A. N. Meckler: Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
D. M. Sigman: Princeton University
K. A. Gibson: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
R. François: Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
A. Martínez-García: Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
S. L. Jaccard: Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
U. Röhl: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
L. C. Peterson: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
R. Tiedemann: Alfred Wegener Institute, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
G. H. Haug: Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Nature, 2013, vol. 495, issue 7442, 495-498

Abstract: Records of biogenic opal export in the North Atlantic Ocean show pronounced maxima during each glacial termination over the past 550,000 years, consistent with a strong deglacial reduction in the formation of silicate-poor glacial North Atlantic intermediate water and a consequent increase in upward silicate transport.

Date: 2013
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