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Naafs, Bernhard David A; Hefter, Jens; Acton, Gary D; Haug, Gerald H; Martínez‐García, Alfredo; Pancost, Richard D; Stein, Ruediger (2012): Alkenone accumulation rates, stable carbon isotope record, and sea surface temperature reconstruction for IODP Site 306-U1313 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757951, Supplement to: Naafs, BDA et al. (2012): Strengthening of North American dust sources during the late Pliocene (2.7 Ma). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, 8-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.026

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Abstract:
Here we present orbitally-resolved records of terrestrial higher plant leaf wax input to the North Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma, based on the accumulation of long-chain n-alkanes and n-alkanl-1-ols at IODP Site U1313. These lipids are a major component of dust, even in remote ocean areas, and have a predominantly aeolian origin in distal marine sediments. Our results demonstrate that around 2.7 million years ago (Ma), coinciding with the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG), the aeolian input of terrestrial material to the North Atlantic increased drastically. Since then, during every glacial the aeolian input of higher plant material was up to 30 times higher than during interglacials. The close correspondence between aeolian input to the North Atlantic and other dust records indicates a globally uniform response of dust sources to Quaternary climate variability, although the amplitude of variation differs among areas. We argue that the increased aeolian input at Site U1313 during glacials is predominantly related to the episodic appearance of continental ice sheets in North America and the associated strengthening of glaciogenic dust sources. Evolutional spectral analyses of the n-alkane records were therefore used to determine the dominant astronomical forcing in North American ice sheet advances. These results demonstrate that during the early Pleistocene North American ice sheet dynamics responded predominantly to variations in obliquity (41 ka), which argues against previous suggestions of precession-related variations in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the early Pleistocene.
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Naafs, Bernhard David A (2011): Long-term evolution of (millennial-scale) climate variability in the North Atlantic over the last four million years. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 638, 122 pp, https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0638_2011
Project(s):
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 41.000005 * Median Longitude: -32.957248 * South-bound Latitude: 41.000000 * West-bound Longitude: -32.957310 * North-bound Latitude: 41.000022 * East-bound Longitude: -32.957010
Date/Time Start: 2004-03-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2004-04-02T00:00:00
Event(s):
306-U1313 * Latitude: 41.000000 * Longitude: -32.957300 * Date/Time Start: 2004-03-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2004-04-02T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3426.0 m * Campaign: Exp306 (North Atlantic Climate 2) * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Composite Core (COMPCORE)
306-U1313A * Latitude: 41.000019 * Longitude: -32.957310 * Elevation: -3412.3 m * Recovery: 319.64 m * Campaign: Exp306 (North Atlantic Climate 2) * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 33 cores; 308.6 m cored; 103.6 % recovered; 0 m drilled; 308.6 m penetrated
306-U1313C * Latitude: 41.000022 * Longitude: -32.957010 * Elevation: -3412.7 m * Recovery: 305.79 m * Campaign: Exp306 (North Atlantic Climate 2) * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 32 cores; 293.4 m cored; 104.2 % recovered; 0 m drilled; 293.4 m penetrated
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Naafs, BDA; Hefter, J; Acton, GD et al. (2012): Concentrations and accumulation rates of biomarkers and SSTs at IODP Site 306-U1313. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757946
  2. Naafs, BDA; Hefter, J; Acton, GD et al. (2012): Stable carbon isotope record of alkenones from IODP Site 306-U1313. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757947
  3. Naafs, BDA; Hefter, J; Acton, GD et al. (2012): 400 ka moving average sea surface temperature reconstruction for IODP Site 306-U1313. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.775268
  4. Naafs, BDA; Hefter, J; Acton, GD et al. (2012): Core correlation of IODP Site 306-U1313. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757945