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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY
卷 19, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000939
关键词
paleoflux; sediment focusing; paleoproductivity
[1] There is increasing evidence indicating that syndepositional redistribution of sediment on the seafloor by bottom currents is common and can significantly affect sediment mass accumulation rates. Notwithstanding its common incidence, this process ( generally referred to as sediment focusing) is often difficult to recognize. If redistribution is near synchronous to deposition, the stratigraphy of the sediment is not disturbed and sediment focusing can easily be overlooked. Ignoring it, however, can lead to serious misinterpretations of sedimentary fluxes, particularly when past changes in export flux from the overlying water are inferred. In many instances, this problem can be resolved, at least for sediments deposited during the late Quaternary, by normalizing to the flux of Th-230 scavenged from seawater, which is nearly constant and equivalent to the known rate of production of Th-230 from the decay of dissolved U-234. We review the principle, advantages and limitations of this method. Notwithstanding its limitations, it is clear that Th-230 normalization does provide a means of achieving more accurate interpretations of sedimentary fluxes and eliminates the risk of serious misinterpretations of sediment mass accumulation rates.
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