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    Last glacial-interglacial productivity and associated changes in the eastern Arabian Sea

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    2017
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    Naik, Dinesh K.
    Lea, D.W.
    Kurtarkar, S.R.
    Mackensen, A.
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    We reconstruct paleo-productivity and bottom water oxygenation changes during the past 32ka, from the southeastern Arabian Sea, using absolute abundance of planktic foraminifera, relative abundance of Globigerina bulloides, angular asymmetrical benthic foraminifera (AABF), measurements of total organic carbon (Corg), %CaCO3, and Globigerinoides ruber ?18O and ?13C. The faunal and geochemical proxies suggest that productivity in the southeastern Arabian Sea was high during MIS 3. A distinct decrease in productivity is inferred during the last glacial maximum (19-23ka) (LGM). Bottom water was well oxygenated during MIS3, only to become oxygen-depleted during the LGM. Productivity decreased abruptly during Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS-1), but the response to Heinrich Stadial 2 (HS-2) was different. Low productivity during the early deglaciation is also synchronous with an increase in ice-volume corrected ?18O (?18Osw-ivc), a salinity proxy, between 18.9 (18.3-18.9) ka BP and 15.9 (15.0-16.3) ka BP, and a concomitant decrease in ?13C between 18.2 (17.5-18.7) ka BP and 16.4 (15.3-16.7) ka BP. These patterns suggest that the global ?13C minimum event during the last deglaciation was associated with the weak monsoon interval during HS-1 and a drop in productivity in tropical regions. A progressive increase in productivity is observed throughout the Holocene, with a distinct jump at 5.4 (3.8-6.3) ka BP. We infer that although productivity was higher in the eastern Arabian Sea during most of the last glacial interval, the overall resultant carbon sequestration was confined only to a restricted zone and not large enough to substantially alter atmospheric CO2.
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    https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PALAEO.2016.07.014
    http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7795
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