Jonkers, Lukas; Barker, Stephen; Hall, Ian R; Prins, Maarten Arnoud (2015): Grain size and XRD analysis on Site 162-983 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854773, Supplement to: Jonkers, L et al. (2015): Correcting for the influence of ice-rafted detritus on grain size-based paleocurrent speed estimates. Paleoceanography, 30(10), 1347-1357, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002830
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Abstract:
The grain size of deep-sea sediments provides an apparently simple proxy for current speed. However, grain size-based proxies may be ambiguous when the size distribution reflects a combination of processes, with current sorting only one of them. In particular, such sediment mixing hinders reconstruction of deep circulation changes associated with ice-rafting events in the glacial North Atlantic because variable ice-rafted detritus (IRD) input may falsely suggest current speed changes. Inverse modeling has been suggested as a way to overcome this problem. However, this approach requires high-precision size measurements that register small changes in the size distribution. Here we show that such data can be obtained using electrosensing and laser diffraction techniques, despite issues previously raised on the low precision of electrosensing methods and potential grain shape effects on laser diffraction. Down-core size patterns obtained from a sediment core from the North Atlantic are similar for both techniques, reinforcing the conclusion that both techniques yield comparable results. However, IRD input leads to a coarsening that spuriously suggests faster current speed. We show that this IRD influence can be accounted for using inverse modeling as long as wide size spectra are taken into account. This yields current speed variations that are in agreement with other proxies. Our experiments thus show that for current speed reconstruction, the choice of instrument is subordinate to a proper recognition of the various processes that determine the size distribution and that by using inverse modeling meaningful current speed reconstructions can be obtained from mixed sediments.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Median Latitude: 60.403357 * Median Longitude: -23.640619 * South-bound Latitude: 60.403300 * West-bound Longitude: -23.640667 * North-bound Latitude: 60.403500 * East-bound Longitude: -23.640600
Date/Time Start: 1995-07-21T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-07-24T00:00:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Raw grain size analysis as measured by Coulter counter at Hole 162-983A, size fraction range 5-60 µm. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854784
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Raw grain size analysis as measured by Coulter counter at Hole 162-983A, size fraction range 10-63 µm. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854783
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Raw grain size analysis as measured by laser diffraction at Hole 162-983A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854782
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Fig. 1 Grain size distributions for sediment standards. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854772
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Fig. 5 End member compositions of grain size analysis at Site 162-983. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854769
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Fig. 5 End member proportions of grain size analysis at Hole 162-983A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854770
- Jonkers, L; Barker, S; Hall, IR et al. (2015): Fig. 4 Quartz/Pyroxene ratio in Hole 162-983A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854771