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GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000858
关键词
circulation; deglaciation; paleoceanography; proxy; paleoceanography : general or miscellaneous; oceanography : biological and chemical : chemical tracers; oceanography : biological and chemical : nutrients and nutrient cycling
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/T/S/2002/00436] Funding Source: researchfish
[1] We present evidence that the characteristic chemical signature ( based on coupled benthic foraminiferal Cd/Ca and delta C-13) of Antarctic Intermediate waters (AAIW) penetrated throughout the intermediate depths of the Atlantic basin to the high-latitude North Atlantic during the abrupt cooling events of the last deglaciation: Heinrich 1 and the Younger Dryas. AAIW may play the dynamic counterpart to the bipolar seesaw'' when near-freezing salty bottom waters from the Antarctic (AABW) sluggishly ventilate the deep ocean. Our data reinforce the concept that interglacial circulation is stabilized by salinity feedbacks between salty northern sourced deep waters (NADW) and fresh southern sourced waters ( AABW and AAIW). Further, the glacial ocean may be susceptible to the more finely balanced relative densities of NADW and AAIW, due to either freshwater input or a reversal of the salinity gradient, such that the ocean is poised for NADW collapse via a negative salinity feedback. The unstable climate of the glacial period and its termination may arise from the closer competition for ubiquity at intermediate depths between northern and southern sourced intermediate waters.
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