Raitzsch, Markus; Kuhnert, Henning; Hathorne, Ed C; Groeneveld, Jeroen; Bickert, Torsten (2011): (Table 1) Elemental composition of benthic foraminifera from South Atlantic core top samples. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.762797, Supplement to: Raitzsch, M et al. (2011): U/Ca in benthic foraminifers: A proxy for the deep-sea carbonate saturation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12(6), https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003344
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Abstract:
The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle, and attempts to reconstruct past changes in the marine carbonate system are increasing. The speciation of dissolved uranium is sensitive to variations in carbonate system parameters, and previous studies have shown that this is recorded in the uranium-to-calcium ratio (U/Ca) of the calcite shells of planktonic foraminifera. Here we test whether U/Ca ratios of deep-sea benthic foraminifera are equally suited as an indicator of the carbonate system. We compare U/Ca in two common benthic foraminifer species (Planulina wuellerstorfi and Cibicidoides mundulus) from South Atlantic core top samples with the calcite saturation state (Delta [CO3**2-] = [CO3**2-]in situ - [CO3**2-]sat) of the ambient seawater and find significant negative correlations for both species. Compared with planktonic foraminifera, the sensitivity of U/Ca in benthic foraminifera to changes in Delta [CO3**2-] is about 1 order of magnitude higher. Although Delta [CO3**2-] exerts the dominant control on the average foraminiferal U/Ca, the intertest and intratest variability indicates the presence of additional factors forcing U/Ca.
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Funding:
German Science Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 5472008: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -29.611049 * Median Longitude: -24.916945 * South-bound Latitude: -48.013333 * West-bound Longitude: -58.518200 * North-bound Latitude: -1.665000 * East-bound Longitude: 13.828333
Date/Time Start: 1988-03-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-01-31T08:10:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.005 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.005 m
Event(s):
GeoB1041-1 * Latitude: -3.480000 * Longitude: -7.591667 * Date/Time: 1988-03-12T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4035.0 m * Penetration: 0.42 m * Location: Walvis Ridge * Campaign: M6/6 * Basis: Meteor (1986) * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG) * Comment: Karb.-schl., Forams
GeoB1105-3 * Latitude: -1.665000 * Longitude: -12.428330 * Date/Time: 1989-02-25T00:00:00 * Elevation: -3231.0 m * Penetration: 0.36 m * Recovery: 0.32 m * Location: Equatorial Atlantic * Campaign: M9/4 * Basis: Meteor (1986) * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG) * Comment: Karbonatschlamm
GeoB1118-2 * Latitude: -3.560000 * Longitude: -16.431660 * Date/Time: 1989-03-06T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4675.0 m * Penetration: 0.48 m * Recovery: 0.47 m * Location: Brazil Basin * Campaign: M9/4 * Basis: Meteor (1986) * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG) * Comment: Karbonatschlamm, Foram.
Comment:
standard deviation=standard error of the mean.Partition coefficient DU = (U/Cashell)/(U/Caseawater) using a U/Caseawater = 1390 nmol/mol [Ku et al., 1977].*Outlier not used in regressions.
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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