Beltran, C;
Rousselle, G;
Backman, J;
Wade, BS;
Sicre, MA;
(2014)
Paleoenvironmental conditions for the development of calcareous nannofossil acme during the late Miocene in the eastern equatorial Pacific.
Paleoceanography
, 29
(3)
pp. 210-222.
10.1002/2013PA002506.
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Abstract
Repeated monospecific coccolithophore dominance intervals (acmes) of specimens belonging to the Noelaerhabdaceae family—including the genus Reticulofenestra and modern descendants Emiliania and Gephyrocapsa—occurred during the Neogene. Such acme was recognized during the late Miocene (~ 8.6 Ma), at a time of a major reorganization of nannofossil assemblages resulting in a worldwide temporary disappearance of larger forms of the genus Reticulofenestra (R. pseudoumbilicus) and the gradual recovery and dominance of its smaller forms (< 5 µm). In this study we present a multiproxy investigation of late Miocene sediments from the east equatorial Pacific Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338 where small reticulofenestrid-type placoliths with a closed central area—known as small Dictyococcites spp. (< 3 µm)—formed an acme. We report on oxygen and carbon stable isotope records of multispecies planktic calcite and alkenone-derived sea surface temperature. Our data indicate that, during this 100 kyr long acme, the east equatorial Pacific thermocline remained deep and stable. Local surface stratification state fails to explain this acme and thus contradicts the model-based hypothesis of a Southern Ocean high-latitude nutrient control of the surface waters in the east equatorial Pacific. Instead, our findings suggest that external forcing such as an extended period of low eccentricity may have created favorable conditions for the small Dictyococcites spp. growth.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Paleoenvironmental conditions for the development of calcareous nannofossil acme during the late Miocene in the eastern equatorial Pacific |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/2013PA002506 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/2013PA002506 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, Oceanography, Paleontology, Geology, coccolithophore acme, stable isotopes, alkenones, equatorial Pacific, late Miocene, IODP site U1338, LIVING PLANKTONIC-FORAMINIFERA, LONG-CHAIN ALKENONES, TROPICAL PACIFIC, MIDDLE MIOCENE, ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION, WARM POOL, GLOBIGERINA-BULLOIDES, VERTICAL-DISTRIBUTION, COCCOLITH CALCITE, THERMOCLINE DEPTH |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1426770 |
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