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Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmpp23c1488s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #PP23C-1488
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4900 Paleoceanography (0473, 3344)
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In the Panama Basin, higher glacial sediment mass accumulation rates (MARs), determined using oxygen isotope stratigraphy, have been suggested to be due to high surface water primary productivity [1]. More recently, however, the 230Th normalization method suggests that higher glacial sediment fluxes are due to sediment focusing by deep-ocean currents (e.g., [2]). Moreover, the 230Th inventory suggests that lateral advection of marine sediment in the Panama Basin is 2-4 times greater than the vertical flux, provided that the sediment is unfractionated by lateral transport. Differentiating between these two models of MARs is crucial to our understanding of the response of sedimentation to changes in climate, and how sediments record paleoceanographic information. Assuming that the 230Th model is correct, downslope transport of sediment from the top of the Carnegie ridge (an aseismic ridge that forms the southern boundary of the Panama Basin) may be the source of extra 230Th [2]. Previous geophysical studies also suggest that sediment focusing is a common phenomenon in the Panama Basin [3]. Here, we test the sediment redistribution hypothesis by measuring 230Th in cores located near the tops of the Carnegie ridge and other ridges that bound the Panama Basin (e.g., Cocos). If ridge tops are the source of sediment to the basin, then we expect the 230Th systematics to indicate focusing factors that are less than 1 there. An analysis of the mass balance of 230Th within the Panama Basin will be presented. [1] Lyle et al. 2002, Paleoceanography 17(2), 1013. [2] Kienast et al. 2007, Paleoceanography 22, 2213[3] Lonsdale and Malfait, 1974, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 85, 1697-1712
Lyle Mitchell
Marcantonio Franco
Singh Ambuj K.
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