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TI The PostGlacial Isotopic Record of Intermediate Water connects Mediterranean sapropels and Organic‐Rich Layers
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AF Incarbona, Alessandro
   Sprovieri, Mario
AS 1:1;2:2;
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C1 Università di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Via Archirafi 22, 90123 Palermo, Italy
   Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per lo Studio degli Impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in Ambiente Marino, c/o Area della Ricerca via De Marini 6, 16148 Genova, Italy
C2 UNIV PALERMO, ITALY
   CNR, ITALY
IF 3.277
TC 5
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00648/75996/76902.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR VICOMED 1
   VICOMED 2
BO Le Noroit
AB Carbon‐rich layers exist at both sides of the Mediterranean Sea sedimentary record and are called sapropels and organic rich layers (ORLs), respectively in the eastern and western basins. They have different levels of organic carbon accumulation and seafloor oxygen deprivation. The most recent sapropel and ORL depositions have a different timing, approximately 10.8‐6.1 and 14.5‐9.0 ka respectively. Here we investigate oxygen isotopic records of three foraminifera species that occupy different habitats within the Sicily Channel water column since ~ 12.0 ka, thus in the sill between the eastern and western Mediterranean basins. These data are ice volume‐corrected, to get information on water masses density variability, and are accompanied by benthic foraminifera δ13C measurements to establish Sicily Channel seafloor ventilation. Our results, and the comparison with other chronologically well‐constrained Mediterranean records, highlight the connection of the two sub‐basins due to monsoon activity. The end of the maximum Nile River flooding at ~ 9.2 ka, and eastern Mediterranean seafloor reventilation above 1800‐1500 m depth at ~ 8.2 and 7.2 ka, left a clear signature in the intermediate water isotopic record of the Sicily Channel. Concurrently, the western Mediterranean deep water circulation experienced a significant recovery after a long period of slowdown. We argue that African monsoon weakening was transmitted into the western Mediterranean, through the intermediate layer of circulation, where deep water formation took place and brought oxygen to the seafloor. 
PY 2020
PD OCT
SO Paleoceanography And Paleoclimatology
SN 2572-4517
PU American Geophysical Union
VL 35
IS 10
UT 000588449700010
DI 10.1029/2020PA004009
ID 75996
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