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Climatic Record of the Past 130,000 Years in North Atlantic Deep-Sea Core V23-82: Correlation with the Terrestrial Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Constance Sancetta ,
John Imbrie  and
N.G. Kipp
Constance Sancetta
Affiliation:
CLIMAP, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912 USA
John Imbrie
Affiliation:
CLIMAP, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912 USA
N.G. Kipp
Affiliation:
CLIMAP, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912 USA
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Abstract

Quantitative paleo-environmental analyses of planktonic foraminifera in 182 samples covering the past 130,000 years in North Atlantic deep-sea core V23-82 yield time series interpreted in terms of changing surface-water conditions. An absolute chronology is estimated by linear interpolation between levels dated by 14C or by stratigraphic correlation with other radiometrically dated climatic records. Significant events include: (1) rapid warming at 127,000 YBP, marking the start of the penultimate North Atlantic and European interglacial; (2) 124,000 YBP temperature maximum (Eemian); (3) 109,000 YBP cooling, correlated with the beginning of the last European glaciation (Würm), and representing a temporary cooling of the North Atlantic; (4) severe cooling 73,000 YBP, marking the start of the last full glacial regime in the North Atlantic; (5) short warm intervals within the last glacial regime dated at 59,000 YBP, 48,000 YBP, and 31,000 YBP; (6) rapid termination of the last glacial interval at 11,000 YBP; (7) a 6000 YBP hypsi-saline, followed by lowering salinity values presumably associated with decreasing flux of Gulf Stream waters over the core site.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , June 1973 , pp. 110 - 116
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University of Washington

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