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Fossil coccolith morphological attributes as a new proxy for deep ocean carbonate chemistry
Amanda Gerotto
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo,
Brazil
Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Pontal do
Paraná, Brazil
Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Renata Hanae Nagai
Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Pontal do
Paraná, Brazil
Heather M. Stoll
Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Rubens César Lopes Figueira
Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo,
Brazil
Chuanlian Liu
State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji
University, Shanghai, China
Iván Hernández-Almeida
Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stalagmites formed in caves provide valuable information about past changes in climate and vegetation conditions. In this contribution, we present a new method to better estimate past changes in soil and vegetation productivity using carbon isotopes and trace elements measured in stalagmites. Applying this method to other stalagmites should provide a better indication of past vegetation feedbacks to climate change.
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Paula Diz, Víctor González-Guitián, Rita González-Villanueva, Aida Ovejero, and Iván Hernández-Almeida
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Jessica G. M. Crumpton-Banks, Thomas Tanner, Ivan Hernández Almeida, James W. B. Rae, and Heather Stoll
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Past ocean carbon is reconstructed using proxies, but it is unknown whether preparing ocean sediment for one proxy might damage the data given by another. We have tested whether the extraction of an organic proxy archive from sediment samples impacts the geochemistry of tiny shells also within the sediment. We find no difference in shell geochemistry between samples which come from treated and untreated sediment. This will help us to maximize scientific return from valuable sediment samples.
José Guitián, Miguel Ángel Fuertes, José-Abel Flores, Iván Hernández-Almeida, and Heather Stoll
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We studied recent (sub-)fossil remains of a type of algae (coccolithophores) off southernmost Chile and across the Drake Passage, adding to the scarce knowledge that exists in the Southern Ocean, a rapidly changing environment. We found that those can be used to reconstruct the surface ocean conditions in the north but not in the south. We also found variations in shape in the dominant species Emiliania huxleyi depending on the location, indicating subtle adaptations to environmental conditions.
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Based on the analysis of the response of coccolithophores’ morphological attributes in a laboratory dissolution experiment and surface sediment samples from the South China Sea, we proposed that the thickness shape (ks) factor of fossil coccoliths together with the normalized ks variation, which is the ratio of the standard deviation of ks (σ) over the mean ks (σ/ks), is a robust and novel proxy to reconstruct past changes in deep ocean carbon chemistry.
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