Journal
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000986
Keywords
calcite fluxes; eastern equatorial Pacific; glacial-interglacial
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The eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) is an important center of biological productivity, generating significant organic carbon and calcite fluxes to the deep ocean. We reconstructed paleocalcite flux for the past 30,000 years in four cores collected beneath the equatorial upwelling and the South Equatorial Current ( SEC) by measuring ex(230)Th-normalized calcite accumulation rates corrected for dissolution with a newly developed proxy for fraction of calcite preserved.'' This method produced very similar results at the four sites and revealed that the export flux of calcite was 30-50% lower during the LGM compared to the Holocene. The internal consistency of these results supports our interpretation, which is also in agreement with emerging data indicating lower glacial productivity in the EEP, possibly as a result of lower nutrient supply from the southern ocean via the Equatorial Undercurrent. However, these findings contradict previous interpretations based on mass accumulation rates ( MAR) of biogenic material in the sediment of the EEP, which have been taken as reflecting higher glacial productivity due to stronger wind-driven upwelling.
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