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Lyle, Mitchell W; Zahn, Rainer; Prahl, Frederick G; Dymond, Jack R; Collier, Robert W; Pisias, Nicklas G; Suess, Erwin (1992): Sedimentology and stable isotope ratios of the northwest Pacific [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.727842, Supplement to: Lyle, MW et al. (1992): Paleoproductivity and carbon burial across the California current: the multitracer transect 42°N. Paleoceanography, 7(3), 251-272, https://doi.org/10.1029/92PA00696

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Abstract:
The Multitracers Experiment studied a transect of water column, sediment trap, and sediment data taken across the California Current to develop quantitative methods for hindcasting paleoproductivity. The experiment used three sediment trap moorings located 120 km, 270 km, and 630 km from shore at the Oregon/California border in North America. We report here about the sedimentation and burial of particulate organic carbon (Corg) and CaCO3. In order to observe how the integrated CaCO3 and Corg burial across the transect has changed since the last glacial maximum, we have correlated core from the three sites using time scales constrained by both radiocarbon and oxygen isotopes. By comparing surface sediments to a two-and-a-half year sediment trap record, we have also defined the modern preservation rates for many of the labile sedimentary materials. Our analysis of the Corg data indicates that significant amounts (20-40%) of the total Corg being buried today in surface sediments is terrestrial. At the last glacial maximum, the terrestrial Corg fraction within 300 km of the coast was about twice as large. Such large fluxes of terrestrial Corg obscure the marine Corg record, which can be interpreted as productivity. When we corrected for the terrestrial organic matter, we found that the mass accumulation rate of marine Corg roughly doubled from the glacial maximum to the present. Because preservation rates of organic carbon are high in the high sedimentation rate cores, corrections for degradation are straightforward and we can be confident that organic carbon rain rate (new productivity) also doubled. As confirmation, the highest burial fluxes of other biogenic components (opal and Ba) also occur in the Holocene. Productivity off Oregon has thus increased dramatically since the last glacial maximum. CaCO3 fluxes also changed radically through the deglaciation; however, they are linked not to CaCO3 production but rather to changes in deepwater carbonate chemistry between 18 Ka and now.
Project(s):
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (LDEO)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 42.092486 * Median Longitude: -127.632667 * South-bound Latitude: 41.542000 * West-bound Longitude: -131.262000 * North-bound Latitude: 42.262000 * East-bound Longitude: -125.750000
Date/Time Start: 1987-09-26T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-02T00:00:00
Event(s):
W8709A-1 * Latitude: 41.542000 * Longitude: -131.262000 * Date/Time: 1987-09-26T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3680.0 m * Campaign: W8709A * Basis: Wecoma * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
W8709A-8 * Latitude: 42.262000 * Longitude: -127.678000 * Date/Time: 1987-09-30T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3111.0 m * Campaign: W8709A * Basis: Wecoma * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
W8709A-8TC * Latitude: 42.257333 * Longitude: -127.678000 * Date/Time: 1987-09-30T00:00:00 * Elevation Start: -3111.0 m * Elevation End: 0.0 m * Campaign: W8709A * Basis: Wecoma * Method/Device: Trigger corer (TC)
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 1) Sedimentology of core W8709A-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358445
  2. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 3) Stable isotope ratios measured on Uvigerina sp. from sediment core W8709A-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358437
  3. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 2) Age determinations on sediment core W8709A-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358442
  4. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 1) Sedimentology of core W8709A-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358447
  5. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 3) Stable isotope ratios measured on Uvigerina sp. from sediment core W8709A-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358439
  6. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 2) Age determinations on sediment core W8709A-8TC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358441
  7. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 1) Sedimentology of core W8709A-8TC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358446
  8. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 3) Stable isotope ratios measured on Uvigerina sp. from sediment core W8709A-8TC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358438
  9. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 2) Age determinations on sediment core W8709A-13. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358440
  10. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 1) Sedimentology of core W8709A-13. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358444
  11. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 3) Stable isotope ratios measured on Uvigerina sp. from sediment core W8709A-13. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358436
  12. Lyle, MW; Zahn, R; Prahl, FG et al. (1992): (Table 1) Sedimentology of core W8709A-13TC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.358443