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dc.contributor.authorModestou, Sevasti Eleni
dc.contributor.authorLeutert, Thomas Jan
dc.contributor.authorBremer, Alvaro Fernandez
dc.contributor.authorLear, Caroline H.
dc.contributor.authorMeckler, Anna Nele
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-26T09:45:19Z
dc.date.available2021-03-26T09:45:19Z
dc.date.created2020-11-22T17:56:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2572-4517
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2735678
dc.description.abstractThe middle Miocene is an important analogue for potential future warm climates. However, few independent deep ocean temperature records exist, though these are important for climate model validation and estimates of changes in ice volume. Existing records, all based on the foraminiferal Mg/Ca proxy, suggest that bottom water temperatures were 5–8°C warmer than present. In order to improve confidence in these bottom water temperature reconstructions, we generated a new record using carbonate clumped isotopes (Δ47) and compared our results with Mg/Ca‐based estimates for the Indian Ocean at ODP Site 761. Our results indicate temperatures of 11.0 ± 1.7°C during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO, 14.7–17 Ma) and 8.1 ± 1.9°C after the middle Miocene Climate Transition (MCT, 13.0–14.7 Ma), values 6 to 9°C warmer than present. Our record also indicates cooling across the MCT of 2.9 ± 2.5°C (uncertainties 95% confidence level). The Mg/Ca record derived from the same samples indicates temperatures well within uncertainty of Δ47. As the two proxies are affected by different non‐thermal biases, the good agreement provides confidence in these reconstructed temperatures. Our Δ47 temperature record implies a ~0.6‰ seawater δ18O change over the MCT, in good agreement with previously published values from other sites. Our data furthermore confirm overall high seawater δ18O values across the middle Miocene, at face value suggesting ice volumes exceeding present‐day despite the warm bottom water temperatures. This finding suggests previously underappreciated additional influences on seawater δ18O and/or a decoupling of ice volume and ocean temperature.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleWarm Middle Miocene Indian Ocean Bottom Water Temperatures: Comparison of Clumped Isotope and Mg/Ca‐Based Estimatesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Authors.en_US
dc.source.articlenumbere2020PA003927en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doi10.1029/2020PA003927
dc.identifier.cristin1850767
dc.source.journalPaleoceanography and Paleoclimatologyen_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 245907en_US
dc.relation.projectEC/H2020/638467en_US
dc.identifier.citationPaleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 2020, 35 (11), e2020PA003927.en_US
dc.source.volume35en_US
dc.source.issue11en_US


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