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Matthiessen, Jens; Knies, Jochen; Nowaczyk, Norbert R; Stein, Ruediger (2001): Late Quaternary dinoflagellate cysts at the Eurasian continental margin, Arctic Ocean [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728133, Supplement to: Matthiessen, J et al. (2001): Late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy at the Eurasian continental margin, Arctic Ocean: Indications for Atlantic water inflow in the past 150,000 years. Global and Planetary Change, 31(1-4), 65-86, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00113-8

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Abstract:
Four sediment cores located at the Eurasian continental margin underlying the Atlantic layer have been studied for their dinoflagellate cyst content. Concentrations of distinct dinoflagellate cyst taxa display fluctuations in the late Quaternary, which are linked to changes in the inflow of relatively warm Atlantic surface and near-surface waters, resulting in increased local production of cysts in certain time intervals. Based on the assumption that marked changes in strength of inflow occurred synchronously at the Eurasian continental margin, concentration maxima can be used to correlate sediment cores. A dinoflagellate cyst record from the northern Barents Sea continental margin has been related to the stable oxygen isotope and paleomagnetic records to provide direct chronological information. The combination of these methods permits definition of stratigraphic sections equivalent to oxygen isotope stages in carbonate-poor sequences from the Eurasian continental margin. Previous age models of sediment cores are revised, based on dinoflagellate cyst abundance peaks and species distribution, but a firm chronostratigraphy of sedimentary sequences at the eastern Laptev Sea continental margin cannot be established because of the weak signal at the sites furthest from Fram Strait.
In the past 150,000 years, the influence of Atlantic (sub-) surface waters generally decreased from west to east along the Eurasian continental margin, in particular during the glacials. Pronounced concentration maxima of cosmopolitan and temperate-subpolar dinoflagellate cysts indicate the inflow of Atlantic waters and seasonally increased production of cysts in the Holocene and Eemian. The Holocene is well-marked at the entire Eurasian continental margin but it is more difficult to assess the extent of (sub-) surface water inflow during the Eemian, which may have only reached the western Laptev Sea continental margin.
Project(s):
Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI (AWI_Paleo)
Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN)
Funding:
Fourth Framework Programme (FP4), grant/award no. MAS3980185: Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 80.095824 * Median Longitude: 80.428548 * South-bound Latitude: 77.998200 * West-bound Longitude: 2.468200 * North-bound Latitude: 81.537667 * East-bound Longitude: 140.200000
Date/Time Start: 1985-08-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-08-24T00:00:00
Event(s):
PS1295-4 (GIK21295-4 PS07/586) * Latitude: 77.998200 * Longitude: 2.468200 * Date/Time: 1985-08-01T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3112.0 m * Penetration: 0.45 m * Recovery: 0.45 m * Location: Fram Strait * Campaign: ARK-III/3 (PS07) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG)
PS2138-1 (PS19/112) * Latitude: 81.537667 * Longitude: 30.876167 * Date/Time: 1991-07-18T21:03:00 * Elevation: -862.0 m * Penetration: 10 m * Recovery: 6.34 m * Location: Svalbard * Campaign: ARK-VIII/2 (PS19 EPOS II) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Gravity corer (Kiel type) (SL) * Comment: Lot 10m
PS2458-4 (PS27/038) * Latitude: 78.166667 * Longitude: 133.398333 * Date/Time: 1993-09-05T00:00:00 * Elevation: -983.0 m * Penetration: 8 m * Recovery: 8 m * Location: Laptev Sea * Campaign: ARK-IX/4 (PS27) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Kasten corer (KAL)
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  1. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS1295-4. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728123
  2. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Age determination of sediment core PS2138-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.66865
  3. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS2138-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728124
  4. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS2458-4. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728125
  5. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS2471-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728126
  6. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS2741-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728127
  7. Matthiessen, J; Knies, J; Nowaczyk, NR et al. (2001): Dinoflagellate cysts from sediment core PS2757-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728128