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dc.contributor.advisorRasmussen, Tine L.
dc.contributor.authorGabrielsen, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-14T10:00:33Z
dc.date.available2017-06-14T10:00:33Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-15
dc.description.abstractSediment core HH13-089GC (497 cm), collected from the continental slope off Scoresby Sund, East Greenland has been investigated in order to study paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes in the area in conjunction with variations in the East Greenland Current during the late Quaternary. The results are based on a multiproxy analysis of the sediment core, including faunal investigations of planktic- and benthic foraminifera, grain size analysis and IRD, stable oxygen- and carbon isotope analysis, and magnetic susceptibility. The grain size of sortable silt was also analysed for the reconstruction of bottom current dynamics. An age model was established using AMS radiocarbon dates, in addition to ages for marine isotope stage boundaries from the global climate curve (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), interpreted by oxygen isotope stratigraphy. The stratigraphic interpretation and proxy results reviled the presence of marine isotope stages 1 – 5, and possibly the MIS 6/5 boundary. The isotope analysis was carried out on the planktic foraminifera N. pachyderma, and showed some excursions from the global curve, suggesting that certain climatic events where overridden by local/regional meltwater events. Retreats and advances of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the last ~ 130 000 years have been indicated by several major pulses of increased supply of IRD. Maximum values were reached during MIS 2 (~ 28 800 – 14 300 yrs. BP), which also includes the Last Glacial Maximum. Some of the major pulses are believed to be related to Heinrich Events based on their characteristics, ages, and correlation with the NGRIP ice core record and other marine records from the North Atlantic. All peaks in the IRD record correlated with the Greenland Stadials recorded in the NGRIP ice core record. The sortable silt record showed an interesting pattern, and was found to have a positive correlation with the climatic oscillations recorded in the NGRIP ice core record, and several magnetic susceptibility records from the North Atlantic. The sortable silt correlations indicated a relationship between large atmospheric climate variations and bottom current activity; where Greenland Interstadials correlated with increased current activity and high magnetic susceptibility, and Greenland Stadials correlated with reduced current activity and low magnetic susceptibility. The planktic and benthic foraminiferal records provided important paleoceanographic information, such as variations in surface productivity and ventilation, events of surface freshening, influence of warmer surface/sub-surface waters, sea ice coverage, nutrient supply, and energy changes in the bottom environment.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11141
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2017 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDGEO-3900
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Marin geologi: 466en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Marine geology: 466en_US
dc.subjectPaleoceanographyen_US
dc.subjectGreenlanden_US
dc.subjectEast Greenland Currenten_US
dc.subjectGlaciationen_US
dc.subjectDeglaciationen_US
dc.subjectIce rafted detrirusen_US
dc.subjectSortable silten_US
dc.subjectBottom current dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectForaminiferaen_US
dc.subjectCarbon isotopesen_US
dc.subjectOxygen isotopesen_US
dc.titleStudy of millennial scale paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes in conjunction with variations in the East Greenland Current during the late Quaternaryen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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