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Persistently well-ventilated intermediate-depth ocean through the last deglaciation

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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
卷 13, 期 11, 页码 733-+

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NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0638-6

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  1. European Research Council
  2. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/S001743/1, NE/N011716/1]
  3. Philip Leverhulme Trust
  4. Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB40010200]
  5. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41822603]
  6. US National Science Foundation [OCE-0926637, OCE-10309040, OCE-0926491]
  7. Marie Curie Reintegration Grant
  8. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Ocean Exploration Trust
  9. NERC [NE/S001743/1, NE/N011716/1, NE/M004619/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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During the last deglaciation (similar to 18-11 thousand years ago), existing radiocarbon (C-14) reconstructions of intermediate waters in the mid- to low-latitude oceans show widely diverging trends, with some broadly tracking the atmosphere and others suggesting extreme depletions. These discrepancies cloud our understanding of the deglacial carbon cycle because of the diversity of hypotheses needed to explain these diverging records, for example, injections of C-14-dead geological carbon, mixing of extremely isolated waters from the abyssal ocean or changes in sites of deep-water ventilation. Here we present absolutely dated deglacial deep-sea coral C-14 records of intermediate waters from the Galapagos Platform-close to the largest reported deglacial C-14 depletions-together with data from the low-latitude Atlantic. Our records indicate coherent, well-equilibrated intermediate-water C-14 ventilation in both oceans relative to the atmosphere throughout the deglaciation. The observed overall trend towards C-14-enriched signatures in our records is largely due to enhanced air-sea carbon isotope exchange efficiency under increasing atmosphericp CO2. These results suggest that the C-14-depleted signatures from foraminifera are likely sedimentary rather than water mass features, and provide tight C-14 constraints for modelling changes in circulation and carbon cycle during the last deglaciation.

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