TY - JOUR
T1 - Lateglacial and early Holocene climatic oscillations on the western Svalbard margin, European Arctic
AU - Ebbesen, Hanne
AU - Hald, Morten
AU - Eplet, Trond Henrik
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding was provided from VISTA, the University of Tromsø, NOClim/NORPAST, the Norwegian Research Council, Roald Amundsen Center and the Carlsberg Foundation. We thank the crew on R/V Jan Mayen and chief scientists L. Labeyrie and E. Jansen and crew on board R/V Marion Dufresne. Thanks to Odd Aasheim for laboratory work and Richard Telford for help with the SST reconstructions. Thanks to John T. Andrews and one anonymous reviewer for constructive reviews.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - A multi proxy sediment core record on the continental margin off western Svalbard, European Arctic, reflects large climatic and oceanographic oscillations at the Lateglacial-early Holocene transition. Based on studies of planktonic foraminifera, their stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition and ice rafted debris, we have reconstructed the last 14 cal. ka BP. The period 14-13.5 cal. ka BP was characterized by highly unstable climatic conditions. Short-lived episodes of warming alternated with meltwater pulses and enhanced iceberg rafting. This period correlates to a regional warming of the northern North Atlantic. An overall decrease in meltwater took place during the deglaciation (14-10.8 cal. ka BP). The late Younger Dryas and subsequent transition into the early Holocene is characterized by a reduced flux of planktonic foraminifera and increased iceberg rafting. A major warming took place from 10.8 to 9.7 cal. ka BP, the influence of meltwater ceased and the flux of warm Atlantic Water increased. From 9.7 to 8.8 cal. ka BP, the western Svalbard margin surface waters were significantly warmer than today. This warm period, the thermal maximum, was followed by an abrupt cooling at 8.8. cal. ka BP, caused by an increased influence of Arctic Water from the Arctic Ocean. The results document that the European Arctic was very sensitive to climatic and oceanographic changes at the end of the last glacial and during the Holocene.
AB - A multi proxy sediment core record on the continental margin off western Svalbard, European Arctic, reflects large climatic and oceanographic oscillations at the Lateglacial-early Holocene transition. Based on studies of planktonic foraminifera, their stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition and ice rafted debris, we have reconstructed the last 14 cal. ka BP. The period 14-13.5 cal. ka BP was characterized by highly unstable climatic conditions. Short-lived episodes of warming alternated with meltwater pulses and enhanced iceberg rafting. This period correlates to a regional warming of the northern North Atlantic. An overall decrease in meltwater took place during the deglaciation (14-10.8 cal. ka BP). The late Younger Dryas and subsequent transition into the early Holocene is characterized by a reduced flux of planktonic foraminifera and increased iceberg rafting. A major warming took place from 10.8 to 9.7 cal. ka BP, the influence of meltwater ceased and the flux of warm Atlantic Water increased. From 9.7 to 8.8 cal. ka BP, the western Svalbard margin surface waters were significantly warmer than today. This warm period, the thermal maximum, was followed by an abrupt cooling at 8.8. cal. ka BP, caused by an increased influence of Arctic Water from the Arctic Ocean. The results document that the European Arctic was very sensitive to climatic and oceanographic changes at the end of the last glacial and during the Holocene.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548623102&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.020
DO - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.020
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 1999
EP - 2011
JO - Quaternary Science Reviews
JF - Quaternary Science Reviews
SN - 0277-3791
IS - 15-16
ER -