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Reconstruction of surface water dynamics in the North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene (similar to 540-400 ka), as inferred from coccolithophores and planktonic foraminifera

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dc.contributor.authorMartinez-Sanchez, Marta
dc.contributor.authorFlores, Jose-Abel
dc.contributor.authorPalumbo, Eliana
dc.contributor.authorAlonso-Garcia, Montserrat
dc.contributor.authorSierro, Francisco-Javier
dc.contributor.authorAmore, Filomena Ornella
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T10:51:36Z
dc.date.available2021-09-01T00:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.description.abstractChanges in paleoclimate and paleoproductivity patterns have been identified by analyzing the coccolithophore assemblages from the IODP Site U1314, located in the subpolar North Atlantic, together with other proxy data available during the time interval from the Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 14 to MIS 11 (ca. 540 to 400 ka). The comparison of this data with that of MD03-2699, located off the Iberian Margin, allowed us to study their common response to environmental changes in terms of paleoproductivity and temperature variability. Statistical analyses of the composition of coccolithophore assemblages revealed that the calcareous plankton dynamics were mainly driven by eccentricity, which controlled the alternating migration of the Polar Front (PF) and the North Atlantic Current (NAC) at glacial-interglacial timescales. The high frequency variability of paleoproductivity, over imposed onto glacial/interglacial variability at both sites, were related to NAC intensifications on a precessional timescale. The northward (southward) migration of the PF caused a strengthening (weakening) of the NAC, which created an intensification (weakening) of the Irminger Current (IC) at Site U1314 and the Portugal Current (PC) at MD03-2699. Furthermore, low-latitude processes have been shown to influence climate in the high-latitude during the late Pleistocene. During MIS 14 and 12, enhanced glacial strength affected both coccolithophores and planktonic foraminifera, indicating a southward movement of the NAC. Using the same proxies, a northward movement of the NAC is recorded during MIS 13 and 11. Alternatively, the spectral analyses performed on calcareous plankton assemblages allowed the identification of a pattern of periodic response of the plankton at the orbital and, in some cases, millennial level, as well as abrupt Heinrich-type time-scale variability during Termination V (TV). This was the most extreme event and was related to a massive iceberg discharge from high to mid-latitudes.
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Science and Innovation projectSpanish Government [CLG2015-68459-P]
dc.description.sponsorshipMEC FPI GrantGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [BES-2010-08651]
dc.description.sponsorshipPortuguese National Science and Technology Foundation [PTDC/MAR-PRO/3396/2014, UID/Multi/04326/2013, SFRH/BPD/96960/2013]
dc.description.sponsorshipAssegno di ricerca MIUR - FRA grantsMinistry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) [2013, 2014]
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.002
dc.identifier.issn0377-8398
dc.identifier.issn1872-6186
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14248
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectScale climate variability
dc.subjectNorwegian Greenland Sea
dc.subjectLong-term changes
dc.subjectLast 50,000 Yr
dc.subjectMillennial-Scale
dc.subjectMiddle Pleistocene
dc.subjectSouth Atlantic
dc.subjectIsotope stages
dc.subjectDeep-water
dc.subjectEquatorial insolation
dc.titleReconstruction of surface water dynamics in the North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene (similar to 540-400 ka), as inferred from coccolithophores and planktonic foraminifera
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPageUNSP 101730
oaire.citation.titleMarine Micropaleontology
oaire.citation.volume152
oaire.fundingStream5876
person.familyNameAlonso-Garcia
person.givenNameMontserrat
person.identifier.ciencia-id5B1B-33EE-50B9
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0241-2178
person.identifier.scopus-author-id51565655800
project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871
project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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