Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996e%26psl.138..169m&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 138, Issue 1-4, pp.169-178
Physics
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Huon Peninsula, Porites, Holocene, Climate, Elsevier: Huon Peninsula, Porites, Holocene, Sr/(Ca), Climate
Scientific paper
High-precision measurements of ratios are reported for Porites corals from the uplifted Holocene coral terraces at Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. The early Holocene Porites have U-Th mass spectrometric ages of 8920 ± 60 yr and 7370 ± 50 yr, and 234 U(t) values of 145 ± 2, similar to modern seawater. The coral records provide 5-6 year high resolution (near weekly) time windows into early Holocene sea surface temperatures. Seasonal temperature fluctuations are generally in the range of ± 1°C, with occasional excursions of ±2°C, which may indicate the more frequent recurrence of very strong ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) events. Mean annual temperatures of 24.2 ± 1.1°C and 22.9 ± 0.8°C have been obtained, which are ~ 2-3°C cooler than that exhibited by a modern Porites . These results indicate that, during the early Holocene, the equatorial western Pacific ocean was at least several degrees cooler than present-day temperatures. This is consistent with late glacial coral records from the Caribbean that indicate lower (~ 6°C) sea surface temperatures for the equatorial oceans. The Huon Peninsula corals also indicate that SSTs were several degrees cooler than those in the Caribbean during the early Holocene. Thus, although the northern hemisphere summer radiation maximum occurred at ~ 10 ka, there appears to have been a significant lag in the response of the equatorial western Pacific ocean to this warming. Cooler early Holocene sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific may have been due to changing patterns of ocean-atmosphere circulation, resulting from the exposure of large areas of continental shelf in the southeast Asia region, a consequence of lower glacial sea levels. It is likely that ocean temperatures in the Huon Peninsula were influenced by the opening at ~ 7 ka of the Torres Strait, that now separates New Guinea from the Australian mainland.
Chappell John
Esat Tezer
Li Xianhua
McCulloch Malcolm
Mortimer Graham
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