Abrantes, Fatima F (1988): Grain size and diatom valves in sediment cores KS82-30 and KS82-31 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787550, Supplement to: Abrantes, FF (1988): Diatom productivity peak and increased circulation during latest Quaternary: Alboran Basin (Western Mediterranean). Marine Micropaleontology, 13(1), 79-96, https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-8398(88)90013-8
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Abstract:
Diatoms were studied quantitatively in six latest Quaternary (~70 kyr B.P. to Recent) piston cores from the westernmost Mediterranean, the Alboran Basin, and the Atlantic region immediately to the west of the Straits of Gibraltar. The Atlantic cores completely lack diatoms. In the Alboran Basin, diatoms are common from late Stage 3 (~27.5 kyr B.P.) to Termination lb (9 kyr B.P.) and in Recent core tops, but are absent in the other latest Quaternary intervals. Maximum accumulation of diatoms and highest abundance of species normally in sediments associated with increased productivity occurred during the latest Quaternary deglaciation, in the first phase of Termination I (~14.8 kyr B.P.).
In the modern Alboran Basin, a region of high biological productivity occurs immediately east of the Gibraltar Straits. This high productivity results from upwelling associated with the interaction between the Atlantic inflow and the bottom topography near the Spanish coast. The upwelled nutrient-rich waters are then advected to the east and southeast by the surficial anticyclonic gyral circulation. Late Quaternary variations in diatom abundance are considered to reflect changes in this upwelling intensity with highest diatom abundances inferred to result from increased upwelling associated with an intensification of the anticyclonic gyral circulation. Highest inferred upwelling rates occurred during the first phase of latest Quaternary deglaciation. It is possible that an intensification of circulation within the Mediterranean Basin as a whole occurred from late Stage 3 to mid Termination I because widespread hiatus formation has been reported at this time in the Straits of Sicily due to an increase in the formation of intermediate waters. Diatoms were not preserved in other latest Quaternary intervals due to insufficient productivity to counterbalance their dissolution.
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Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), grant/award no. 36949: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes
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Median Latitude: 36.196957 * Median Longitude: -3.852987 * South-bound Latitude: 35.985000 * West-bound Longitude: -4.400000 * North-bound Latitude: 36.452100 * East-bound Longitude: -3.261140
Date/Time Start: 1982-11-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1982-11-30T00:00:00
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- Abrantes, FF (1988): Grain size and diatom valves in sediment core KC82-41. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.58774
- Abrantes, FF (1988): Diatom valves in sediment core KS82-30. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.58777
- Abrantes, FF (1988): Grain size and diatom valves in sediment core KS82-31. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.58778