Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmpp23a1730b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #PP23A-1730
Mathematics
Logic
[4805] Oceanography: Biological And Chemical / Biogeochemical Cycles, Processes, And Modeling, [4863] Oceanography: Biological And Chemical / Sedimentation, [4901] Paleoceanography / Abrupt/Rapid Climate Change, [4924] Paleoceanography / Geochemical Tracers
Scientific paper
Located in the North Pacific Ocean, site 1209 on the Shatsky rise offers one of the best-preserved sections for studying biological, oceanographic and climatic events in the aftermath of the K-T impact at ~65 Ma. At this site, the first 450 kyrs after the boundary is represented by an extended carbonate section [1]. The expanded section, also known as the ‘strange interval’ [1] is in direct contrast to sites in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean that have low carbonate deposition during this interval. The strange interval is important for evaluating the immediate changes in climate, ocean circulation, and evolutionary dynamics that accompanied K-T impact in the Pacific Ocean. Here we present measurements of extraterrestrial 3He at site 1209 for the first one million year following the K-T impact event at a resolution of 2.5 cm. Our goal is to better constrain the timescale of climatic and biotic events during this interval of time. Accumulation rates of interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), as traced by extraterrestrial 3He [2], provide a tool with which to investigate sedimentation rates at high resolution. Prior work has shown that the accretion rate of IDPs across the K-T boundary is constant [2], allowing us to invert the extraterrestrial 3He flux for instantaneous sedimentation rates. Sedimentation rates derived from extraterrestrial 3He for the first 1.91 meters i.e. 261.60-259.72 revised composite meters depth (rmcd) following the K-T impact are on an average 0.48 cm/kyr- a factor of 1.6 lower than previously suggested [1]. For a brief period, between 259.69-259.44 rmcd after the K/T boundary, 3He-based sedimentation rates increase sharply to 2.88cm/kyr—a factor of 4.23 higher than has been reported for the same time interval [1]. The short lived increase in sedimentation rate may be explained by higher productivity and/or better carbonate preservation through a deepening lysocline. The 3He based sedimentation rates indicate that the duration of the ‘strange interval’ is 721 kyrs and not 450 kyrs as previously suggested based on astronomical tuning [1]. Hence, our results indicate that there are significant differences between the astronomically tuned timescale [1] and the 3He-derived timescale over the first million years following the K-T impact event. [1] Westerhold et al. Paleogeography, paleoclimatology,paleoecology vol 257. pp373. 2008. [2] Mukhopadhyay et al. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. Vol 65. pp 653. 2001.
Bhattacharya Arnab
Hull Pincelli M.
Mukhopadhyay Subhadeep
Norris Richard D.
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