FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Intensified organic carbon burial on the Australian shelf after the Middle Pleistocene transition BT AF Auer, Gerald Petrick, Benjamin Yoshimura, Toshihiro Mamo, Briony L. Reuning, Lars Takayanagi, Hideko De Vleeschouwer, David Martinez-Garcia, Alfredo AS 1:1,2;2:3,4;3:2;4:5;5:4;6:6;7:7;8:3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences (Geology and Paleontology), NAWI Graz Geocenter, Heinrichstraße 26, 8010, Graz, Austria Research Institute for Marine Resources Utilization (Biogeochemistry Research Center), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15 Natsushima- cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry Department, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128, Mainz, Germany Kiel University, Institute for Geosciences, Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10, 24118, Kiel, Germany Macquarie University, Department of Biological Sciences, North Ryde, 2109, NSW, Australia Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Aobayama, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan MARUM-Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences, Klagenfurterstraße 2-4, Bremen, 28359, Germany C2 UNIV GRAZ, AUSTRIA JAMSTEC, JAPAN MAX PLANCK INST CHEM, GERMANY UNIV KIEL, GERMANY MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA UNIV TOHOKU, JAPAN UNIV BREMEN MARUM, GERMANY IF 4.456 TC 14 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00696/80773/84095.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00696/80773/84096.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00696/80773/84097.xlsx LA English DT Article CR MD 119 / TIP 2000 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;Middle pleistocene transition;Calcareous nannoplankton;Primary productivity;Organic carbon burial;Leeuwin current AB The Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT) represents a major change in Earth's climate state, exemplified by the switch from obliquity-dominated to ∼100-kyr glacial/interglacial cycles. To date, the causes of this significant change in Earth's climatic response to orbital forcing are not fully understood. Nonetheless, this transition represents an intrinsic shift in Earth's response to orbital forcing, without fundamental changes in the astronomical rhythms. This study presents new high-resolution records of International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Site U1460 (eastern Indian Ocean, 27°S), including shallow marine productivity and organic matter flux reconstructions. The proxy series covers the interval between 1.1 and 0.6 Ma and provides insights into Pleistocene Leeuwin Current dynamics along the West Australian shelf. The large >45 m global sea level drop during the marine isotope stage (MIS) 22–24 is marked in our data, suggesting that the MPT led to large-scale changes in Indian Ocean circulation patterns and surface water conditions. We consider shelf exposure (and thus the “Sahul-Indian Ocean Bjerknes mechanism”) as a possible key process to increase the upwelling of nutrient-rich sub-Antarctic Mode waters through the Leeuwin Undercurrent along the Australian shelf. We conclude that the shoaling of nutrient-rich lower-thermocline waters enhanced mid-latitude productivity patterns in the eastern Indian Ocean across the 900-ka event. PY 2021 PD JUL SO Quaternary Science Reviews SN 0277-3791 PU Elsevier BV VL 262 UT 000663678900002 DI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106965 ID 80773 ER EF