Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S; van Bentum, Elisabeth C; Reichart, Gert-Jan; Pross, Jörg; Schouten, Stefan (2012): Palynology and sea surface temperature reconstruction for the mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 at ODP Hole 210-1276A [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786508, Supplement to: Sinninghe Damsté, JS et al. (2010): A CO2 decrease-driven cooling and increased latitudinal temperature gradient during the mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293(1-2), 97-103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.027
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Abstract:
The mid-Cretaceous is thought to be a greenhouse world with significantly higher atmospheric pCO2 and sea-surface temperatures as well as a much flatter latitudinal thermal gradient compared to the present. This time interval was punctuated by the Cenomanian/Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2, ~ 93.5 Myr ago), an episode of global, massive organic carbon burial that likely resulted in a large and abrupt pCO2 decline. However, the climatic consequences of this pCO2 drop are yet poorly constrained. We determined the first, high-resolution sea-surface temperature (SST) record across OAE-2 from a deep-marine sedimentary sequence at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1276 in the mid-latitudinal Newfoundland Basin, NW Atlantic. By employing the organic palaeothermometer TEX86, we found that SSTs across the OAE-2 interval were extremely high, but were punctuated by a remarkably large cooling (5-11 °C), which is synchronous with the 2.5-5.5 °C cooling in SST records from equatorial Atlantic sites, and the "Plenus Cold Event". Because this global cooling event is concurrent with increased organic carbon burial, it likely acted in response to the associated pCO2 drop. Our findings imply a substantial increase in the latitudinal SST gradient in the proto-North Atlantic during this period of global cooling and reduced atmospheric pCO2, suggesting a strong coupling between pCO2 and latitudinal thermal gradients under greenhouse climate conditions.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Latitude: 45.405330 * Longitude: -44.785830
Date/Time Start: 2003-02-09T16:20:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-07-16T08:44:00
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210-1276A * Latitude: 45.405330 * Longitude: -44.785830 * Date/Time Start: 2003-07-16T08:44:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-02-09T16:20:00 * Elevation: -4549.1 m * Penetration: 1736.9 m * Recovery: 790.35 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: Leg210 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 103 cores; 936.9 m cored; 753 m drilled; 84.4 % recovery
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- Sinninghe Damsté, JS; van Bentum, EC; Reichart, G-J et al. (2010): (Tabld S2) Palynology across the C/T section of ODP Hole 210-1276A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786507
- Sinninghe Damsté, JS; van Bentum, EC; Reichart, G-J et al. (2010): (Tabld S1) Bulk geochemistry, TEX86, SST and BIT reconstruction at ODP Hole 210-1276A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786506