Abstract
Clay mineralogy and trace-element geochemistry of two abyssal cores indicate that the primary source of surface-current-transported detrital material in the southern Grenada Basin changed from a continental, South American terrane to a volcanic, Lesser Antillean terrane at the end of the Pleistocene. The record of benthic foraminiferal assemblages demonstrates that the Caribbean Bottom Water (CBW) was relatively oxygen poor and less corrosive in late Pleistocene glacial times than in interglacial times. The change in the properties of CBW in the Holocene was related to a renewed influx of North Atlantic Deep Water in the Caribbean.
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Sen Gupta, B.K., Pujos, M., Pons, J.C. et al. Micropaleontological, mineralogical, and geochemical record in late quaternary cores from abyssal Grenada Basin. Geo-Marine Letters 11, 2–8 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02431048
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