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Dynamics of North Atlantic Deep Water masses during the Holocene

Hoogakker, B. A. A., Chapman, M. R., McCave, I. N., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ellison, C. R. W., Hall, Ian Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-1419 and Telford, R. J. 2011. Dynamics of North Atlantic Deep Water masses during the Holocene. Paleoceanography 26 , PA4214. 10.1029/2011PA002155

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Abstract

High resolution flow speed reconstructions of two core sites located on Gardar Drift in the northeast Atlantic Basin and Orphan Knoll in the northwest Atlantic Basin reveal a long-term decrease in flow speed of Northeast Atlantic Deep Water (NEADW) after 6,500 years. Benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes of sites currently bathed in NEADW show a 0.2‰ depletion after 6,500 years, shortly after the start of the development of a carbon isotope gradient between NEADW and Norwegian Sea Deep Water. We consider these changes in near-bottom flow vigor and benthic foraminiferal isotope records to mark a significant reorganization of the Holocene deep ocean circulation, and attribute the changes to a weakening of NEADW flow during the mid to late Holocene that allowed the shoaling of Lower Deep Water and deeper eastward advection of Labrador Sea Water into the northeast Atlantic Basin.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography
Additional Information: Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1944-9186/ (accessed 20/02/2014).
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
ISSN: 0883-8305
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 07 May 2023 20:02
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/30488

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