Publication Date:
2024-02-29
Description:
A global sea surface temperature calibration based on the relative abundance of different morphotypes within the coccolithophore genus Gephyrocapsa in Holocene deep-sea sediments is presented. There is evidence suggesting that absolute sea surface temperature for a given location can be calculated from the relative abundance of Gephyrocapsa morphotypes in sediment samples, with a standard error comparable to temperature estimates derived from other temperature proxies such as planktic foraminifera transfer functions. A total of 110 Holocene sediment samples were selected from the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans covering a mean sea surface temperature gradient from 13.6° to 29.3°C. Standard multiple linear regression analyses were applied to this data set, linking the relative abundance of Gephyrocapsa morphotypes to sea surface temperature. The best model revealed an r**2 of 0.83 with a standard residual error of 1.78°C for the estimation of mean sea surface temperature. This new proxy provides a unique opportunity for the reconstruction of paleotemperatures with a very small amount of sample material due to the minute size of coccoliths, permitting examination of thinly laminated sediments (e.g., a pinhead of material from laminated sediments for the reconstruction of annual sea surface temperature variations). Such fine-scale resolution is currently not possible with any other proxy. Application of this new paleotemperature proxy may allow new paleoenvironmental interpretations in the late Quaternary period and discrepancies between the different currently used paleotemperature proxies might be resolved.
Keywords:
06MT41_3; 182-1127B; A150/180; A152-84; Agadir Canyon; Angola Basin; BATS; BATS_SedTrap_10013; BC; BCR; Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study; Box corer; Box corer (Reineck); Brazil Basin; CALYPSO; Calypso Corer; Canary Islands; Chlorophyll a; Danuta; Depth, bottom/max; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth, top/min; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; East Atlantic; Eastern Equatorial Pacific; Elevation of event; ELT21; ELT21.011-TC; ELT48; ELT48.027A-TC; ELT48.031A-TC; ELT48.036-PC; Eltanin; ERDC; ERDC-083BX; ERDC-092BX; ERDC-129BX; Estimated; Event label; extracted from the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (Levitus et al., 1998); FGGE-Equator 79 - First GARP Global Experiment; FH13; GC; GeoB1048-3; GeoB4205-1; GeoB4207-1; GeoB4216-2; GeoB4223-1; GeoB4228-1; GeoB4234-1; GeoB4237-1; GeoB4242-4; GeoB4301-1; GeoB5142-2; GeoB5559-2; Gephyrocapsa spp.; Giant box corer; GIK12309-2; GIK12310-4; GIK12329-4; GIK12337-4; GIK12345-4; GIK12347-1; GIK12392-1; GIK13519-2; GIK15612-2; GIK15627-3; GIK15637-1; GIK15669-4; GIK16869-1; GKG; Gravity corer; Gravity corer (Kiel type); Great Australian Bight; GS7805-15; Indian Ocean; INMD; INMD-048BX; INMD-065BX; INMD-072BX; INMD-074BX; INMD-104BX; INMD-110BX; INMD-115BX; INMD-127BX; Joides Resolution; KAL; Kasten corer; KC26_1362; KL_Mk; KOL; Latitude of event; Leg182; Longitude of event; M12392-1; M25; M37/1; M38/1; M41/3; M42/4b; M51; M53; M53_169-2; M57; M6/5; M6/6; M69; M69-196; Marion Dufresne (1972); MC608; MC611; MD00; MD73006; MD73011; MD73022; MD75055; MD81346; MD85682; Melville; Meteor (1964); Meteor (1986); MUC; MultiCorer; Multiple; N3KF21; NOAMP III; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic; off Gabun; off West Africa; Okada6; OSIRIS I; PC; Piston corer; Piston corer (Kiel type); Piston corer Meischner small; PLDS-070BX; PLDS-3; Pleiades; PR44-1179; RC08; RC08-91; RC08-94; RC09; RC09-104; RC09-124; RC09-126; RC09-129; RC09-77; RC10; RC10-161; RC11; RC11-10; RC1112; RC11-12; RC11-124; RC11-126; RC11-128; RC11-22; RC11-230; RC12; RC12-210; RC12-266; RC12-292; RC12-340TW; RC13; RC13-17; RC13-38; Robert Conrad; Sample comment; Sea surface temperature; Sea surface temperature, annual mean; Sea surface temperature, autumn; Sea surface temperature, spring; Sea surface temperature, summer; Sea surface temperature, winter; Sierra Leone Rise; SL; South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; T88-09B; T90-14P; TC; Thomas Washington; Trap, sediment, floating; TRAPSF; Trigger corer; Tyr-15; Tyr-2; Tyr-4; V10; V10-89; V15; V15-29; V16; V16-205; V19; V19-163; V19-240; V19-282; V19-41; V19-55; V20; V20-103; V20-171; V20-176; V20-228; V23; V23-101; V23-98; V26; V26-124; V26-46; V26-68; V27; V27-137; V27-144; V27-215; V28; V28-239; V29; V29-135; V29-49; V29-64; Vema; VM188-193
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 2573 data points
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