Journal
HOLOCENE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 1-9Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/095968301673881493
Keywords
chronology; spectral analysis; periodicity; Palmer Deep; Antarctic Peninsula; Holocene; radiocarbon; sedimentology
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Palmer Deep sediment cores are used to produce the first high-resolution, continuous late Pleistocene to Holocene time-series from the Antarctic marine system. The sedimentary record is dated using accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon methods on acid insoluble organic matter and foraminiferal calcite. Fifty-four radiocarbon analyses are utilized in the dating which provides a calibrated timescale back to 13 ka BP. Reliability of resultant ages on organic matter is assured because duplicates produce a standard deviation from the surface age of less than laboratory error (i.e., +/-50 years). In addition, surface organic matter ages at the site are in excellent agreement with living calcite ages at the accepted reservoir age of similar to 1260 years for the Antarctic Peninsula. Spectral analyses of the magnetic susceptibility record against the age model reveal unusually strong periodicity in the 400, similar to 200 and 50-70 year frequency bands, similar to other high-resolution records from the Holocene but, so far, unique for the circum-Antarctic, Hen we show that comparison to ice-core records of specific climatic events (e.g., the 'Little Ice Age', Neoglacial, Hypsithermal, and the Bolling/Allerod to Younger Dryas transition) provides improved focus upon the relative timing of atmosphere/ocean changes between the northern and southern high latitudes.
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