The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration

DM Sigman, MP Hain, GH Haug - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Global climate and the atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide () are correlated over
recent glacial cycles, with lower during ice ages, but the causes of the changes are …

Global connections between aeolian dust, climate and ocean biogeochemistry at the present day and at the last glacial maximum

BA Maher, JM Prospero, D Mackie, D Gaiero… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Palaeo-dust records in sediments and ice cores show that wind-borne mineral aerosol
('dust') is strongly linked with climate state. During glacial climate stages, for example, the …

Chapter fourteen elemental proxies for palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic variability in marine sediments: interpretation and application

SE Calvert, TF Pedersen - Developments in marine geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the elemental proxies for palaeoclimatic and
palaeoceanographic variability in marine sediments. Physical and biological processes …

A marine biogeochemical perspective on black shale deposition

DZ Piper, SE Calvert - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Deposition of marine black shales has commonly been interpreted as having involved a
high level of marine phytoplankton production that promoted high settling rates of organic …

230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

KM Costa, CT Hayes, RF Anderson… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 230Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐
resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last~ 500,000 years). As its …

Dust fluxes and iron fertilization in Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climates

F Lambert, A Tagliabue, G Shaffer… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral dust aerosols play a major role in present and past climates. To date, we rely on
climate models for estimates of dust fluxes to calculate the impact of airborne micronutrients …

Carbon dioxide effects of Antarctic stratification, North Atlantic Intermediate Water formation, and subantarctic nutrient drawdown during the last ice age: Diagnosis and …

MP Hain, DM Sigman, GH Haug - Global Biogeochemical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In a box model synthesis of Southern Ocean and North Atlantic mechanisms for lowering
CO2 during ice ages, the CO2 changes are parsed into their component geochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoceanographic insights on recent oxygen minimum zone expansion: lessons for modern oceanography

SE Moffitt, RA Moffitt, W Sauthoff, CV Davis, K Hewett… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an
opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we …

No iron fertilization in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the last ice age

KM Costa, JF McManus, RF Anderson, H Ren… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The equatorial Pacific Ocean is one of the major high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll
regions in the global ocean. In such regions, the consumption of the available macro …

A deeper respired carbon pool in the glacial equatorial Pacific Ocean

LI Bradtmiller, RF Anderson, JP Sachs… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Atmospheric pCO2 was approximately 80ppm lower during the last glacial period than
during pre-industrial times. Identifying the fate of that carbon has been one of the great …