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  • Bibliography on Seismology
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  • Inst. f. Geophys., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum
  • Soc. Explorat. Geophys.
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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2020-07-23
    Description: A chlorophyll a hindcast in the Madeira Basin from 1871 to 2008 was used to analyze the long-term variability in the oligotrophic, subtropical gyres in relation to the climate change of the last century. The deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM), as dominant pattern of the chlorophyll a field, showed a fast decrease in its strength in the 1940s. An absolute minimum was reached between 1967 and 1973 when no DCM established with a recovering to the end of the time series. Long-term variability of the DCM was related to the North Atlantic Oscillation with a time delay of 9 years. The marked decrease in the 1940s was correlated to the drop of the solar radiation in transition from early brightening to global dimming. Caused by the influence of the solar radiation and maybe related to increasing global temperatures in the last century, the integrated chlorophyll a concentration decreased by about 0.7 mg m−2 in 2008 compared to 1871. The high-resolved chlorophyll a hindcast allowed an estimation of the carbon uptake by the ocean due to primary production in the euphotic zone. A rough calculation over the area of the global subtropical oceans showed 700 megaton less carbon uptake in 2008.
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    In:  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120 (2). pp. 237-245.
    Publication Date: 2020-07-23
    Description: Understanding the development of primary production is essential for projections of the global carbon cycle in the context of climate change. A chlorophyll a hindcast that serves as a primary production indicator was obtained by fitting in situ measurements of nitrate, chlorophyll a, and temperature. The resulting fitting functions were adapted to a modeled temperature field. The method was applied to observations from the Madeira Basin, in the northeastern part of the oligotrophic North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre and yielded a chlorophyll a field from 1989 to 2008 with a monthly resolution validated with remotely measured surface chlorophyll a data by SeaWiFS. The chlorophyll a hindcast determined with our method resolved the seasonal and interannual variability in the phytoplankton biomass of the euphotic zone as well as the deep chlorophyll maximum. Moreover, it will allow estimation of carbon uptake over long time scales.
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Distinct differences were observed in geochemical signatures in sediments from two sites drilled in the upper plate of the Costa Rica margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 334. The upper 80 m at Site U1379, located on the outer shelf, show pore water non‐steady state conditions characteristic of a declining methane flux. These contrast with analyses of the upper sediment layers at the middle slope site (U1378) that reflect steady state conditions. Distinct carbonate‐rich horizons up to 11 meters thick were recovered between 63 and 310 meters below seafloor at Site U1379 but were not found at Site U1378. The carbonates and dissolved inorganic carbon from Site U1379 have a depleted carbon stable isotope signal (up to ‐25‰) that indicates anaerobic methane oxidation. This inference is further supported by distinct δ34S‐pyrite and magnetic susceptibility records that reveal fluctuations of the sulfate‐methane transition in response to methane flux variations. Tectonic reconstructions of this margin document a marked subsidence event after arrival of the Cocos Ridge, 2.2 ± 0.2 million years ago (Ma), followed by increased sedimentation rates and uplift. As the seafloor at Site U1379 rose from ~2000 m to the present water depth of ~126 m, the site moved out of the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) at ~1.1 Ma, triggering upward methane advection, methane oxidation, and the onset of massive carbonate formation. Younger carbonate occurrences and the non‐steady state pore profiles at Site U1379 reflect continued episodic venting likely modulated by changes in the underlying methane reservoir.
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Seafloor pockmarks of varying size occur over an area of 50,000 km2 on the Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. The pockmarks are concentrated above the flat‐subducted Hikurangi Plateau. Echosounder data identifies recurrent episodes of pockmark formation at ~100,000yr frequency coinciding with Pleistocene glacial terminations. Here we show that there are structural conduits beneath the larger pockmarks through which fluids flowed upward toward the seafloor. Large negative Δ14C excursions are documented in marine sediments deposited next to these subseafloor conduits and pockmarks at the last glacial termination. Modern pore waters contain no methane and there is no negative δ13C excursion at the glacial termination that would be indicative of methane or mantle‐derived carbon at the time the Δ14C excursion and pockmarks were produced. An ocean general circulation model equipped with isotope tracers is unable to simulate these large Δ14C excursions on the Chatham Rise by transport of hydrothermal carbon released from the East Pacific Rise as previous studies suggested. Here we attribute the Δ14C anomalies and pockmarks to release of 14C‐dead CO2 and carbon‐rich fluids from subsurface reservoirs, the most likely being dissociated Mesozoic carbonates that subducted beneath the Rise during the Late Cretaceous. Because of the large number of pockmarks and duration of the Δ14C anomaly, the pockmarks may collectively represent an important source of 14C‐dead carbon to the ocean during glacial terminations.
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Neodymium (Nd) isotopes extracted from authigenic sediment phases are increasingly used as a proxy for past variations in water mass provenance. To better constrain the controls of water mass provenance and nonconservative effects on the archived Nd isotope signal, we present a new depth transect of Nd isotope reconstructions from the Blake Bahama Outer Ridge along the North American continental margin covering the past 30 ka. We investigated five sediment cores that lie directly within the main flow path of the Deep Western Boundary Current, a major advection route of North Atlantic Deep Water. We found offsets between core tops and seawater Nd isotopic compositions that are observed elsewhere in the Northwest Atlantic. A possible explanation for this is the earlier suggested redistribution of sediment by nepheloid layers at intermediate as well as abyssal depths, transporting material downslope and along the continental margin. These processes potentially contributed to Nd isotope excursions recorded in Northwest Atlantic sediment cores during the Bølling-Allerød and early Holocene. An Atlantic-wide comparison of Nd isotope records shows that the early Holocene excursions had an additional contribution from conservative advection of unradiogenic dissolved Nd. Nevertheless, the trends of the Nd isotope records are in general agreement with previous reconstructions of water mass provenance from the entire Atlantic and also reveal millennial-scale changes during the last deglaciation in temporal high resolution, which have rarely been reported before. Further, the new records confirm that during cold periods the Northwest Atlantic was bathed by an increased contribution of southern sourced water.
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