Deglacial–Holocene Svalbard paleoceanography and evidence of meltwater pulse 1B

Tian SY, Yasuhara M, Hong Y, Huang HH, Iwatani H, Chiu WTR, Mamo B, Okahashi H, Rasmussen TL (2020)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Quaternary Science Reviews Elsevier

Book Volume: 233

Article Number: 106237

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106237

Abstract

Better understanding of deglacial meltwater pulses (MWPs) is imperative for future predictions of human-induced warming and abrupt sea-level change because of their potential for catastrophic damage. However, our knowledge of the second largest meltwater pulse MWP-1B that occurred shortly after the start of the Holocene interglacial remains very limited. Here, we studied fossil ostracods as paleoenvironmental indicators of water depth, salinity, and temperature in two marine sediment cores from Storfjorden, Svalbard margin (the Arctic Ocean), to investigate near-field (i.e. areas located beneath continental ice sheets at the Last Glacial Maximum) evidence of MWP-1B. The depositional environment changed from a cold bathyal environment to a warmer bathyal environment at ∼11,300 yr BP indicating incursion of warm Atlantic water into the Nordic seas, and eventually to a cold neritic environment by ∼11,000 yr BP because of melting of the Svalbard-Barents Sea ice sheet and resultant isostatic rebound. This process corresponds to rapid relative sea-level fall of 40–80 m of MWP-1B from ∼11,300 to 11,000 yr BP.

Authors with CRIS profile

Huai-Hsuan Huang Lehrstuhl für Paläoumwelt

Involved external institutions

University of Hong Kong (HKU) / 香港大學 HK Hong Kong (HK) Universitetet i Tromsø / The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) NO Norway (NO)

How to cite

APA:

Tian, S.Y., Yasuhara, M., Hong, Y., Huang, H.-H., Iwatani, H., Chiu, W.T.R.,... Rasmussen, T.L. (2020). Deglacial–Holocene Svalbard paleoceanography and evidence of meltwater pulse 1B. Quaternary Science Reviews, 233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106237

MLA:

Tian, Skye Yunshu, et al. "Deglacial–Holocene Svalbard paleoceanography and evidence of meltwater pulse 1B." Quaternary Science Reviews 233 (2020).

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