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Jaccard, Samuel L; Galbraith, Eric Douglas; Sigman, Daniel M; Haug, Gerald H; Francois, Roger; Pedersen, Thomas F; Dulski, Peter; Thierstein, Hans R (2009): Geochemistry of ODP Site 145-882 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.716782, Supplement to: Jaccard, SL et al. (2009): Subarctic Pacific evidence for a glacial deepening of the oceanic respired carbon pool. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(1-2), 156-165, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.017

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Abstract:
Measurements of benthic foraminiferal cadmium:calcium (Cd/Ca) have indicated that the glacial-interglacial change in deep North Pacific phosphate (PO4) concentration was minimal, which has been taken by some workers as a sign that the biological pump did not store more carbon in the deep glacial ocean. Here we present sedimentary redox-sensitive trace metal records from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 882 (NW subarctic Pacific, water depth 3244 m) to make inferences about changes in deep North Pacific oxygenation - and thus respired carbon storage - over the past 150,000 yr. These observations are complemented with biogenic barium and opal measurements as indicators for past organic carbon export to separate the influences of deep-water oxygen concentration and sedimentary organic carbon respiration on the redox state of the sediment. Our results suggest that the deep subarctic Pacific water mass was depleted in oxygen during glacial maxima, though it was not anoxic. We reconcile our results with the existing benthic foraminiferal Cd/Ca by invoking a decrease in the fraction of the deep ocean nutrient inventory that was preformed, rather than remineralized. This change would have corresponded to an increase in the deep Pacific storage of respired carbon, which would have lowered atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by sequestering CO2 away from the atmosphere and by increasing ocean alkalinity through a transient dissolution event in the deep sea. The magnitude of change in preformed nutrients suggested by the North Pacific data would have accounted for a majority of the observed decrease in glacial atmospheric pCO2.
Project(s):
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Latitude: 50.363300 * Longitude: 167.599800
Date/Time Start: 1992-08-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-08-08T00:00:00
Event(s):
145-882 * Latitude: 50.363300 * Longitude: 167.599800 * Date/Time Start: 1992-08-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-08-08T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3255.0 m * Penetration: 668.7 m * Recovery: 692.1 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg145 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Composite Core (COMPCORE) * Comment: 71 cores; 668.7 m cored; 0 m drilled; 103.5% recovery
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Jaccard, SL; Galbraith, ED; Sigman, DM et al. (2009): (Appendix A3) Al, Ca, Mn and Ba concentrations of ODP Site 145-882. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.716778
  2. Jaccard, SL; Galbraith, ED; Sigman, DM et al. (2009): (Appendix A4) Element biogenic barium concentrations of ODP Site 145-882. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.716781
  3. Jaccard, SL; Galbraith, ED; Sigman, DM et al. (2009): (Appendix A2) Opal and calcium carbonate concentrations of ODP Site 145-882. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.716776
  4. Jaccard, SL; Galbraith, ED; Sigman, DM et al. (2009): (Appendix A1) Thorium excess concentrations of ODP Site 145-882. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.716774