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Matos, Lelia; Wienberg, Claudia; Titschack, Jürgen; Schmiedl, Gerhard; Frank, Norbert; Abrantes, Fatima F; Cunha, Marina Ribeiro; Hebbeln, Dierk (2017): Sediment core studies at the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884833, Supplement to: Matos, L et al. (2017): Coral mound development at the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico: Implications of Antarctic Intermediate Water increased influence during interglacials. Marine Geology, 392, 53-65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.08.012

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Abstract:
Coral mounds formed by framework-forming scleractinian cold-water corals (CWC; mainly Lophelia pertusa) are a common seabed feature along the Atlantic continental margins. While coral mound areas in the NE Atlantic reveal a climate-dependent temporal pattern of CWC occurrence and mound aggradation that is related to distinct environmental conditions (e.g., productivity, water mass properties, hydrodynamics), the long-term development of CWC and coral mounds at the western side of the Atlantic is less well documented and understood. Here, we present a 260-kyr coral record from the recently described Campeche CWC province in the southern Gulf of Mexico, combined with a reconstruction of the paleo-environmental conditions for the last 140 kyr. Uranium-series dating of 26 coral samples reveals that CWC growth predominantly coincided with interglacial periods. Highest vertical mound aggradation rates of 34 to 40 cm kyr^-1 occurred during the Holocene. The reduced occurrence of CWC and the concurrent almost complete stagnation in mound aggradation during glacial periods could be linked to a diminished presence of Antarctic Intermediate Water at those intermediate depths in which the coral mounds occur. Such setting would have caused a less dynamic bottom current regime resulting in a reduced food supply to the CWC along the Campeche Bank.
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Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM)
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Median Latitude: 23.840534 * Median Longitude: -87.157887 * South-bound Latitude: 23.824167 * West-bound Longitude: -87.206217 * North-bound Latitude: 23.872750 * East-bound Longitude: -87.150050
Date/Time Start: 2012-03-23T01:04:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-03-24T21:28:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Matos, L; Wienberg, C; Titschack, J et al. (2017): (Supplementary Table 1) Results of the benthic foraminifera Planulina ariminensis stable isotopes and grain size analyses performed on sediment core GeoB16320-2,Campeche cold-water coral Province (Mexico). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884738
  2. Matos, L; Wienberg, C; Titschack, J et al. (2017): (Supplementary Table 2) Results of the benthic foraminifera census performed on sediment core GeoB16320-2, Campeche cold-water coral Province (Mexico). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884829
  3. Matos, L; Wienberg, C; Titschack, J et al. (2017): (Supplementary Table 3) Statistical results of the benthic foraminifera census performed on sediment core GeoB16320-2, Campeche cold-water coral Province (Mexico). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884832
  4. Matos, L; Wienberg, C; Titschack, J et al. (2017): (Tabel 2) U-series ages, isotope concentrations and ratios of sediment cores GeoB16310-3, GeoB16313-2, and GeoB16318-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884722
  5. Matos, L; Wienberg, C; Titschack, J et al. (2017): (Tabel 3) AMS 14C ages determined on multi-species samples of planktic foraminifera from the sediment core GeoB16320-2. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884725