FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Impact of iceberg melting on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during Heinrich events BT AF SIERRO, FJ HODELL, DA CURTIS, JH FLORES, JA REGUERA, I COLMENERO-HIDALGO, E BARCENA, MA GRIMALT, JO CACHO, I FRIGOLA, J CANALS, M AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:1;8:3;9:4;10:4;11:4; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:; C1 Univ Salamanca, Dept Geol, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain. Univ Florida, Dept Geol Sci, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA. nst Chem & Environm Res, Dept Environm Chem, IBarcelona 08034, Spain. Univ Barcelona, Dept Stratig Paleontol & Marine Geosci, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain. C2 UNIV SALAMANCA, SPAIN UNIV FLORIDA, USA NST CHEM & ENVIRONM RES, SPAIN UNIV BARCELONA, SPAIN IF 3.233 TC 167 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00232/34354/32759.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES V LEG 1-MD114 IMAGES V LEG 4-MD114 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;climatic change;Heinrich events;Mediterranean Sea;carbon and oxygen isotopes;thermohaline circulation;Pleistocene AB Down-core samples of planktonic and benthic foraminifera were analyzed for oxygen and carbon isotopes in International Marine Past Global Changes Study (IMAGES) core MD99-2343 in order to study the interactions between climate change in the Northern Hemisphere and the western Mediterranean thermohaline circulation at times of Heinrich events (HE). Our results confirm the antiphase correlation between enhanced North Atlantic Deep Water formation and low ventilation in the Mediterranean. However, this study reveals that this antiphase relationship in deepwater formation between the North Atlantic and Mediterranean was interrupted during times of HE when the injection of large volumes of water from melting icebergs reached the entrance to the Mediterranean. These events, which lasted less than 1000 years, are represented by pronounced decreases in both planktonic delta(18)O and benthic delta(13)C signals. Lower salinities of Mediterranean surface water resulted in a slowdown of western Mediterranean deepwater overturn even though cold sea surface temperatures and drier climate should have resulted in enhanced deepwater formation. PY 2005 PD JUL SO Paleoceanography SN 0883-8305 PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 20 IS PA2019 UT 000230483400002 BP 1 EP 13 DI 10.1029/2004PA001051 ID 34354 ER EF