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Stott, Lowell D; Davy, Bryan; Shao, Jun; Coffin, Richard C; Pecher, Ingo A; Neil, Helen L; Rose, Paula S; Bialas, Jörg (2019): Pore water geochemistry and bulk sediment 14C ages at Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.906048, Supplement to: Stott, LD et al. (2019): CO2 Release From Pockmarks on the Chatham Rise‐Bounty Trough at the Glacial Termination. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003674

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Abstract:
Seafloor pockmarks of varying size occur over an area of 50,000 km² on the Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. The pockmarks are concentrated above the flat-subducted Hikurangi Plateau. Echosounder data identifies recurrent episodes of pockmark formation at ~100,000yr frequency coinciding with Pleistocene glacial terminations. Here we show that there are structural conduits beneath the larger pockmarks through which fluids flowed upward toward the seafloor. Large negative Δ¹⁴C excursions are documented in marine sediments deposited next to these subseafloor conduits and pockmarks at the last glacial termination. Modern pore waters contain no methane and there is no negative δ¹³C excursion at the glacial termination that would be indicative of methane or mantle-derived carbon at the time the Δ¹⁴C excursion and pockmarks were produced. An ocean general circulation model equipped with isotope tracers is unable to simulate these large Δ¹⁴C excursions on the Chatham Rise by transport of hydrothermal carbon released from the East Pacific Rise as previous studies suggested. Here we attribute the Δ¹⁴C anomalies and pockmarks to release of ¹⁴C-dead CO2 and carbon-rich fluids from subsurface reservoirs, the most likely being dissociated Mesozoic carbonates that subducted beneath the Rise during the Late Cretaceous. Because of the large number of pockmarks and duration of the Δ¹⁴C anomaly, the pockmarks may collectively represent an important source of ¹⁴C-dead carbon to the ocean during glacial terminations.
Keyword(s):
carbon isotope composition of DIC; Dissolved inorganic carbon; pore water; sulfate
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Median Latitude: -43.973193 * Median Longitude: 179.759625 * South-bound Latitude: -44.239170 * West-bound Longitude: 177.241500 * North-bound Latitude: -43.693600 * East-bound Longitude: -178.780000
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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  1. Stott, LD; Davy, B; Shao, J et al. (2019): Bulk sediment 14C ages of sediment core PC45 at Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.906039
  2. Stott, LD; Davy, B; Shao, J et al. (2019): Bulk sediment 14C ages of sediment core PC54 at Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.906030
  3. Stott, LD; Davy, B; Shao, J et al. (2019): Pore water geochemistry of sediment core PC75-2 at Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.906042
  4. Stott, LD; Davy, B; Shao, J et al. (2019): Pore water geochemistry of sediment core PC83-1 at Chatham Rise, Canterbury Shelf and Inner Bounty Trough, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.906044