FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Record of methane emissions from the West Svalbard continental margin during the last 23.500 yrs revealed by delta C-13 of benthic foraminifera BT AF PANIERI, Giuliana JAMES, Rachael H. CAMERLENGHI, Angelo WESTBROOK, Graham CONSOLARO, Chiara CACHO, Isabel CESARI, Valentina SANCHEZ CERVERA, Cristina AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:4;4:3,5,6;5:1,7;6:8;7:2;8:8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 UiT Arctic Univ Norway, CAGE Ctr Arctic Gas Hydrate Environm & Climate, N-9037 Tromso, Norway. CNR ISMAR, I-40129 Bologna, Italy. Univ Southampton, Natl Oceanog Ctr, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England. OGS Ist Nazl Oceanog & Geofis Sperimentale, I-34010 Trieste, Italy. Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England. IFREMER, Ctr Brest, F-29280 Plouzane, France. Univ Plymouth, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, England. Univ Barcelona, Fac Geol, Dept Estratig Paleontol & Geociencies Marines, GRC Geociencies Marines, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain. C2 UNIV ARCTIC NORWAY, NORWAY ISMAR, ITALY NOC, UK OGS, ITALY UNIV BIRMINGHAM, UK IFREMER, Ctr Brest, F-29280 Plouzane, France. UNIV PLYMOUTH, UK UNIV BARCELONA, SPAIN IF 2.766 TC 50 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00245/35605/88200.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Methane emission;Vestnesa Ridge;West Svalbard;Stable isotope;delta C-13;Benthic foraminifera AB The values of delta C-13 in benthic foraminifera have been measured in a gas-hydrate-bearing sediment core collected from an area of active methane venting on the Vestnesa Ridge (West Svalbard continental margin) to reconstruct the local history of methane emissions over the past 23.500 yrs BP. The chronostratigraphic framework of the core has been derived from AMS C-14 dates and biostratigraphic analysis. While foraminifera from some intervals have delta C-13 within the normal marine range (0 to-1%.), five intervals are characterized by a much lower delta C-13, as low as -17.4%.. These intervals are interpreted to record the incorporation of C-13-depleted carbon in the presence of methane emissions at the seafloor during biomineralization of the carbonate foraminiferal tests and subsequent secondary mineralization. Methane emission events (MEE) occur from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the Holocene, with the most prominent one, in terms of delta C-13 depletion, predating the Bolling-Allerod Interstadial (GI-1 in the Greenland ice core record). The lack of correlation between the values of delta C-13 and delta O-18, however, appears to preclude warming of bottom waters as the principal control on methane release. Rather, it seems likely that methane release is a consequence of episodicity in the supply of gas to the hydrate system and in the processes that enable methane gas to migrate through the hydrate stability field to the seabed, or of other geological processes still under debate. PY 2014 PD NOV SO Global And Planetary Change SN 0921-8181 PU Elsevier Science Bv VL 122 UT 000345488600013 BP 151 EP 160 DI 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.08.014 ID 35605 ER EF