Serno, Sascha; Winckler, Gisela; Anderson, Robert F; Hayes, Christopher T; Ren, Haojia Abby; Gersonde, Rainer; Haug, Gerald H (2014): Biogenic opal, biogenic barium, calcium carbonate and U/Th isotope data from core-top sediments of SONNE cruise SO202 (INOPEX) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832293, Supplement to: Serno, S et al. (2014): Using the natural spatial pattern of marine productivity in the Subarctic North Pacific to evaluate paleoproductivity proxies. Paleoceanography, 29(5), 438-453, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013PA002594
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Abstract:
Sedimentary proxies used to reconstruct marine productivity suffer from variable preservation and are sensitive to factors other than productivity. Therefore, proxy calibration is warranted. Here we map the spatial patterns of two paleoproductivity proxies, biogenic opal and barium fluxes, from a set of core-top sediments recovered in the Subarctic North Pacific. Comparisons of the proxy data with independent estimates of primary and export production, surface water macronutrient concentrations and biological pCO2 drawdown indicate that neither proxy shows a significant correlation with primary or export productivity for the entire region. Biogenic opal fluxes, when corrected for preservation using 230Th-normalized accumulation rates, show a good correlation with primary productivity along the volcanic arcs (tau = 0.71, p = 0.0024) and with export productivity throughout the western Subarctic North Pacific (tau = 0.71, p = 0.0107). Moderate and good correlations of biogenic barium flux with export production (tau = 0.57, p = 0.0022) and with surface water silicate concentrations (tau = 0.70, p = 0.0002) are observed for the central and eastern Subarctic North Pacific. For reasons unknown, however, no correlation is found in the western Subarctic North Pacific between biogenic barium flux and the reference data. Nonetheless, we show that barite saturation, uncertainty in the lithogenic barium corrections and problems with the reference datasets are not responsible for the lack of a significant correlation between biogenic barium flux and the reference data. Further studies evaluating the factors controlling the variability of the biogenic constituents in the sediments are desirable in this region.
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Median Latitude: 46.761541 * Median Longitude: -174.727700 * South-bound Latitude: 37.767500 * West-bound Longitude: 149.485000 * North-bound Latitude: 54.637800 * East-bound Longitude: -148.884300
Date/Time Start: 2009-07-10T15:29:00 * Date/Time End: 2009-08-23T09:56:00
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- Serno, S; Winckler, G; Anderson, RF et al. (2014): Total barium concentration measured on core-top sediments during SONNE cruise SO202 (INOPEX). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832272
- Serno, S; Winckler, G; Anderson, RF et al. (2014): Salt-corrected opal and barium concentration measured on core-top sediments during SONNE cruise SO202 (INOPEX). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832273