期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 387, 期 -, 页码 132-144出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.007
关键词
Arctic Ocean; gateway; Pliocene; uplift; Northern Hemisphere glaciation
资金
- Statoil ASA
- Det Norske Oljeselskap
- BG Group
- Norwegian Research Council, NFR-Petromaks project Glaciations in the Barents Sea (NRC) [200672/S60]
- DFG [Fi-442/13-1, Fi-442/13-2, Fi-442/14-1, SCHE1665/2-1, SCHE1665/2-2]
- Norwegian Research Council for the Centre of Excellence: Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) [223272]
- K-Polar Program of KOPRI [PP13030]
- Norwegian Research Council [223259]
Despite the undisputed role of the Arctic Ocean in the modern and Pliocene climate system, the Arctic has only recently attracted public awareness that ongoing, fundamental change in the Arctic cryosphere could be a response to global warming. Clarification of the Arctic's role in global climate during the Pliocene is, however, largely hampered by equivocal stratigraphic constraints. From a well-dated Pliocene sequence from the Yermak Plateau, off NW Spitsbergen, we present sedimentological and geochemical data indicating that 4 million years ago terrigenous sediment supply and sources changed abruptly in response to a regional tectonic uplift event. We argue that this event together with contemporary uplift and tilting along the northwestern European continental margin preconditioned the landmasses for glacial ice build-up during intensification of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (INHG). Our data further suggest that the final deepening/widening of the Arctic-Atlantic gateway, the Fram Strait, between 6.5 and 5 Ma gradually caused increased deep-water mass exchange which, in turn, likely contributed to the intensification of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. Coupled to the North Atlantic warm pool as a regional moisture source, declining atmospheric CO2 levels and other feedback mechanisms during the Pliocene, the regional tectonic activities in the high northern latitudes caused decreased summer ablation and thus allowed the initial build-up of glacial ice both in Scandinavia, and the sub-aerially exposed Svalbard/Barents Sea, culminating in the first large-scale coastline-shelf edge glaciations at similar to 2.75 Ma ago. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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