Publication Date:
2014-12-20
Description:
During the last interglacial period, global temperatures were ~2 degrees C warmer than at present and sea level was 6 to 8 meters higher. Southern Ocean sediments reveal a spike in authigenic uranium 127,000 years ago, within the last interglacial, reflecting decreased oxygenation of deep water by Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). Unlike ice age reductions in AABW, the interglacial stagnation event appears decoupled from open ocean conditions and may have resulted from coastal freshening due to mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. AABW reduction coincided with increased North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, and the subsequent reinvigoration in AABW coincided with reduced NADW formation. Thus, alternation of deep water formation between the Antarctic and the North Atlantic, believed to characterize ice ages, apparently also occurs in warm climates.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hayes, Christopher T -- Martinez-Garcia, Alfredo -- Hasenfratz, Adam P -- Jaccard, Samuel L -- Hodell, David A -- Sigman, Daniel M -- Haug, Gerald H -- Anderson, Robert F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Dec 19;346(6216):1514-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1256620.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. cthayes@mit.edu. ; Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. ; Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. ; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK. ; Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. ; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525246" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atlantic Ocean
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Climate Change
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*Ice Cover
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Oxygen/analysis
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Salinity
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*Seawater
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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