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Rodrigues, Teresa; Naughton, Filipa; Flores, José-Abel (2010): Sea surface temperature reconstruction from biomarker in sediments off Portugal [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761812, Supplement to: Rodrigues, Teresa; Grimalt, Joan O; Abrantes, Fatima F; Naughton, Filipa; Flores, José-Abel (2010): The last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) in the western mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic: Abrupt sea surface temperature change and sea level implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(15-16), 1853-1862, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.004

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Abstract:
High resolution reconstructions of sea surface temperature (Uk'37-SST), coccolithophore associations and continental input (total organic carbon, higher plant n-alkanes, n-alkan-1-ols) in core D13882 from the shallow Tagus mud patch are compared to SST records from deep-sea core MD03-2699 and other western Iberian Margin cores. Results reveal millennial-scale climate variability over the last deglaciation, in particular during the LGIT. In the Iberian margin, Heinrich event 1 (H1) and the Younger Dryas (YD) represent two extreme episodes of cold sea surface condition separated by a marine warm phase that coincides with the Bølling-Allerød interval (B-A) on the neighboring continent. Following the YD event, an abrupt sea surface warming marks the beginning of the Holocene in this region. SSTs recorded in core D13882 changed, however, faster than those at deep-sea site MD03-2699 and at the other available palaeoclimate sequences from the region. While the SST values from most deep-sea cores reflect the latitudinal gradient detected in the Iberian Peninsula atmospheric temperature proxies during H1 and the B-A, the Tagus mud patch (core D13882) experienced colder SSTs during both events. This is most certainly related to a supplementary input of cold freshwater from the continent to the Tagus mud patch, a hypothesis supported by the high contents of terrigenous biomarkers and total organic carbon as well as by the dominance of tetra-unsaturated alkenone (C37:4) observed at this site.
The comparison of all western Iberia SST records suggests that the SST increase that characterizes the B-A event in this region started 1000 yr before meltwater pulse 1A (mwp-1A) and reached its maximum values during or slightly after this episode of substantial sea-level rise. In contrast, during the YD/ Holocene transition, the sharp SST rise in the Tagus mud patch is synchronous with meltwater pulse IB. The decrease of continental input to the mud patch conflrms a sea level rise in the region. Thus, the synchronism between the maximum warming in the mid-latitudes off the western Iberian margin, the adjacent landmasses and Greenland indicates that mwp-lB and the associated sea-level rise probably initiated in the Northern Hemisphere rather than in the South.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 38.902633 * Median Longitude: -10.258400 * South-bound Latitude: 38.634500 * West-bound Longitude: -10.660500 * North-bound Latitude: 39.036700 * East-bound Longitude: -9.454200
Date/Time Start: 2000-09-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-09-01T00:00:00
Event(s):
D13882 * Latitude: 38.634500 * Longitude: -9.454200 * Date/Time: 2000-09-01T00:00:00 * Elevation: -88.0 m * Recovery: 13.61 m * Location: Portuguese Margin * Campaign: D249 * Basis: Discovery (1962) * Method/Device: Gravity corer (GC)
MD03-2699 * Latitude: 39.036700 * Longitude: -10.660500 * Elevation: -1865.0 m * Recovery: 26.56 m * Location: Iberian slope * Campaign: MD134 (PICABIA) * Basis: Marion Dufresne (1995) * Method/Device: Calypso Corer (CALYPSO)
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  1. Rodrigues, T; Grimalt, JO; Abrantes, FF et al. (2010): Sea surface temperature reconstruction from sediment core D13882. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761811
  2. Rodrigues, T; Grimalt, JO; Abrantes, FF et al. (2010): (Table 2) Age determination of sediment core MD03-2699. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836237
  3. Rodrigues, T; Grimalt, JO; Abrantes, FF et al. (2010): Sea surface temperature reconstruction from sediment core MD03-2699. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761774