A Search for an Early Holocene CACO3 Preservation Event
Authors:
- W. S. BroeckerWBW. S. Broecker
- Yong LaoYLYong Lao
- Mieczyslawa KlasMKMieczyslawa Klas
- Elizabeth ClarkECElizabeth Clark
- Georges BonaniGBGeorges Bonani
- Susan IvySISusan Ivy
- Chin ChenCCChin Chen
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
- Vol. 8 (3) , 333-339
Abstract
The CO2 record for air bubbles from the Byrd Station ice core suggest a drawdown in the ocean‐atmosphere carbon reservoir during the early Holocene. Such a drawdown would require a corresponding increase in the CO3= ion concentration in the deep sea. We report here the results of a search in Atlantic sediments for evidence that the lysocline showed a corresponding deepening. While both the pteropod and the calcite preservation records we have obtained are consistent with expectation, they are not conclusive.Keywords
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