Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Castañeda, Isla S ^a   Schefuß, Enno ^b   Pätzold, Jürgen ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Weldeab, Syee ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alkenone; eastern Mediterranean; Heinrich event 1; Nile River; North Africa; TEX86

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958564204     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001740     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Adamson, D. A., F. Gasse, F. A. Street, and, M. A. J. Williams, (1980), Late Quaternary history of the Nile, Nature, 288, 50-55, doi: 10.1038/288050a0.
2. Alley, R. B., (2004), GISP2 ice core temperature and accumulation data, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/metadata/noaa-icecore-2475.html, World Data Cent. for Paleoclimatology, Boulder, Colo.
3. Arz, H. W., J. Pätzold, P. J. Müller, and, M. O. Moammar, (2003), Influence of Northern Hemisphere climate and global sea level rise on the restricted Red Sea marine environment during termination I, Paleoceanography, 18 (2), 1053, doi: 10.1029/2002PA000864.
4. Bar-Matthews, M., A. Ayalon, and, A. Kaufman, (1997), Late Quaternary paleoclimate in the eastern Mediterranean region from stable isotope analysis of speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel, Quat. Res., 47, 155-168, doi: 10.1006/qres.1997.1883.
5. Bar-Matthews, M., A. Ayalon, A. Kaufman, and, G. J. Wasserburg, (1999), The eastern Mediterranean paleoclimate as a reflection of regional events: Soreq Cave, Israel, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 166, 85-95, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00275-1.
6. Bar-Matthews, M., A. Ayalon, M. Gilmour, A. Matthews, and, C. J. Hawkesworth, (2003), Sea-land oxygen isotopic relationships from planktonic foraminifera and speleothems in the eastern Mediterranean region and their implication for paleorainfall during interglacial intervals, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 3181-3199, doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01031-1.
7. Berger, A., and, M. F. Loutre, (1991), Insolation values for the climate of the last 10 million years, Quat. Sci. Rev., 10, 297-317, doi: 10.1016/0277-3791(91)90033-Q.
8. Brassell, S. C., G. Eglinton, I. T. Marlowe, U. Pflaumann, and, M. Sarnthein, (1986), Molecular stratigraphy: A new tool for climatic assessment, Nature, 320, 129-133, doi: 10.1038/320129a0.
9. Brasseur, P., J. M. Beckers, J. M. Brankart, and, R. Schoenauen, (1996), Seasonal temperature and salinity fields in the Mediterranean Sea: Climatological analyses of a historical data set, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 43, 159-192, doi: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00012-X.
10. Cacho, I., J. O. Grimalt, C. Pelejero, M. Canals, F. J. Sierro, J. A. Flores, and, N. Shackleton, (1999), Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures, Paleoceanography, 14, 698-705.
11. Cacho, I., J. O. Grimalt, M. Canals, L. Sbaffi, N. J. Shackleton, J. Schönfeld, and, R. Zahn, (2001), Variability of the western Mediterranean Sea surface temperature during the last 25,000 years and its connection with the Northern Hemisphere climatic changes, Paleoceanography, 16, 40-52, doi: 10.1029/2000PA000502.
12. Calvert, S. E., B. Nielsen, and, M. R. Fontugne, (1992), Evidence from nitrogen isotope ratios for enhanced productivity during formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels, Nature, 359, 223-225, doi: 10.1038/359223a0.
13. Castañeda, I. S., J. P. Werne, and, T. C. Johnson, (2007), Wet and arid phases in the southeast African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum, Geology, 35, 823-826, doi: 10.1130/G23916A.1.
14. k′) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q02005, doi: 10.1029/2005GC001054.
15. Coolen, M. J. L., and, J. Overmann, (2007), 217 000-year-old DNA sequences of green sulfur bacteria in Mediterranean sapropels and their implications for the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment, Environ. Microbiol., 9, 238-249, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01134.x.
16. Emeis, K.-C., U. Struck, H.-M. Schulz, R. Rosenberg, S. Bernasconi, H. Erlenkeuser, T. Sakamoto, and, F. Martinez-Ruiz, (2000), Temperature and salinity variations of Mediterranean Sea surface waters over the last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 158, 259-280.
17. 18O composition during deposition of sapropels in the Late Quaternary, Paleoceanography, 18 (1), 1005, doi: 10.1029/2000PA000617.
18. Essallami, L., M. A. Sicre, N. Kallel, L. Labeyrie, and, G. Siani, (2007), Hydrological changes in the Mediterranean Sea over the last 30,000 years, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q07002, doi: 10.1029/2007GC001587.
19. 14C dates on pristine corals, Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 1781-1796, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.04.007.
20. Ferguson, J. E., G. M. Henderson, M. Kucera, and, R. E. M. Rickaby, (2008), Systematic change of foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios across a strong salinity gradient, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 265, 153-166, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.011.
21. Garcin, Y., A. Vincens, D. Williamson, G. Buchet, and, J. Guiot, (2007), Abrupt resumption of the African monsoon at the Younger Dryas-Holocene climatic transition, Quat. Sci. Rev., 26, 690-704, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.10.014.
22. Goudie, A. S., and, N. J. Middleton, (2001), Saharan dust storms: Nature and consequences, Earth Sci. Rev., 56, 179-204, doi: 10.1016/S0012-8252(01)00067-8.
23. Guerzoni, S., et al., (1999), The role of atmospheric deposition in the biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea, Prog. Oceanogr., 44, 147-190, doi: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00024-5.
24. Hamann, Y., W. Ehrmann, G. Schmiedl, S. Krüger, J. B. Stuut, and, T. Kuhnt, (2008), Sedimentation processes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Late Glacial and Holocene revealed by end-member modelling of the terrigenous fraction in marine sediments, Mar. Geol., 248, 97-114, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.10.009.
25. Hayes, A., M. Kucera, N. Kallel, L. Sbaffi, and, E. J. Rohling, (2005), Glacial Mediterranean Sea surface temperatures based on planktonic foraminiferal assemblages, Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 999-1016, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.02.018.
26. Hopmans, E. C., S. Schouten, R. D. Pancost, M. T. J. van der Meer, and, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, (2000), Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 14, 585-589, doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(20000415)14:7<585::AID-RCM913>3.0.CO;2-N.
27. Hopmans, E. C., J. W. H. Weijers, E. Schefuß, L. Herfort, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, and, S. Schouten, (2004), A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 224, 107-116, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.012.
28. Hughen, K. A., et al., (2004), Marine04 marine radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP, Radiocarbon, 46, 1059-1086.
29. k′), Paleoceanography, 21, PA3003, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001215.
30. Johnson, T. C., E. T. Brown, J. McManus, S. Barry, P. Barker, and, F. Gasse, (2002), A high-resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern East Africa, Science, 296, 113-132, doi: 10.1126/science.1070057.
31. 86 paleothermometer in the ocean, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 1154-1173, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.12.010.
32. Kim, J.-H., X. Crosta, E. Michel, S. Schouten, J. Duprat, and, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, (2009 a), Impact of lateral transport on organic proxies in the Southern Ocean, Quat. Res., 71, 246-250, doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.10.005.
33. K′ palaeothermometers, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 2888-2898, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.02.030.
34. Kisakürek, B., A. Eisenhauer, F. Böhm, D. Garbe-Schönberg, and, J. Erez, (2008), Controls on shell Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca in cultured planktonic foraminiferan, Globigerinoides ruber (white), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 273, 260-269, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.026.
35. Kostopoulou, E., and, P. D. Jones, (2007), Comprehensive analysis of the climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean. Part I: Map-pattern classification, Int. J. Climatol., 27, 1189-1214, doi: 10.1002/joc.1467.
36. Krom, M. D., J. D. Stanley, R. A. Cliff, and, J. C. Woodward, (2002), Nile River sediment fluctuations over the past 7000 yr and their key role in sapropel development, Geology, 30, 71-74, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0071:NRSFOT>2.0.CO;2.
37. Krom, M. D., S. Groom, and, T. Zohary, (2003), The eastern Mediterranean, in The Biogeochemistry of Marine Systems, edited by, K. D. Black, and, G. B. Shimmield, pp. 91-122, Blackwell, Oxford, U. K.
38. Kubilay, N., S. Nickovic, C. Moulin, and, F. Dulac, (2000), An illustration of the transport and deposition of mineral dust onto the eastern Mediterranean, Atmos. Environ., 34, 1293-1303, doi: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00179-X.
39. Kuhlemann, J., E. J. Rohling, I. Krumrei, P. Kubik, S. Ivy-Ochs, and, M. Kucera, (2008), Regional synthesis of Mediterranean atmospheric circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum, Science, 321, 1338-1340, doi: 10.1126/science.1157638.
40. Lamb, H. F., C. R. Bates, P. V. Coombes, M. H. Marshall, M. Umer, S. J. Davies, and, E. Dejen, (2007), Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile, Quat. Sci. Rev., 26, 287-299.
41. Lea, D. W., T. A. Mashiotta, and, H. J. Spero, (1999), Controls on magnesium and strontium uptake in planktonic foraminifera determined by live culturing, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 2369-2379, doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00197-0.
42. 86, and planktonic foraminifera in the Benguela upwelling system: Implications for past sea surface temperature estimates, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q10019, doi: 10.1029/2008GC002056.
43. Martrat, B., J. O. Grimalt, N. J. Shackleton, L. de Abreu, M. A. Hutterli, and, T. F. Stocker, (2007), Four climate cycles of recurring deep and surface water destabilizations on the Iberian margin, Science, 317, 502-507.
44. Marullo, S., R. Santoleri, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, and, A. Bergamasco, (1999), The sea surface temperature field in the eastern Mediterranean from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) data: Part 1. Seasonal variability, J. Mar. Syst., 20, 63-81, doi: 10.1016/S0924-7963(98)00071-2.
45. Menzel, D., E. C. Hopmans, S. Schouten, and, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, (2006), Membrane tetraether lipids of planktonic Crenarchaeota in Pliocene sapropels of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 239, 1-15, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.01.002.
46. Mollenhauer, G., M. Inthorn, T. Vogt, M. Zabel, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, and, T. I. Eglinton, (2007), Aging of marine organic matter during cross-shelf lateral transport in the Benguela upwelling system revealed by compound-specific radiocarbon dating, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q09004, doi: 10.1029/2007GC001603.
47. Mollenhauer, G., T. I. Eglinton, E. C. Hopmans, and, J. S. Sinnighe Damsté, (2008), A radiocarbon-based assessment of the preservation characteristics of crenarchaeol and alkenones from continental margin sediments, Org. Geochem., 39, 1039-1045, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.02.006.
48. Murray, A. E., A. Blakis, R. Massana, S. Strawzewski, U. Passow, A. Alldredge, and, E. F. DeLong, (1999), A time series assessment of planktonic archaeal variability in the Santa Barbara Channel, Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 20, 129-145, doi: 10.3354/ame020129.
49. Nolet, G. J., and, B. H. Corliss, (1990), Benthic foraminiferal evidence for reduced deep-water circulation during sapropel deposition in the eastern Mediterranean, Mar. Geol., 94, 109-130, doi: 10.1016/0025-3227(90)90106-T.
50. Nürnberg, D., J. Bijma, and, C. Hemleben, (1996), Assessing the reliability of magnesium in foraminiferal calcite as a proxy for water mass temperatures, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 803-814, doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00446-7.
51. Pätzold, J., G. Bohrmann, and, C. Hübscher, (2003), Black Sea-Mediterranean-Red Sea: Cruise No. 52, Meteor-Ber. 03-2, 179 pp., Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2 Jan. to 27 March.
52. Powers, L. A., J. P. Werne, T. C. Johnson, E. C. Hopmans, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, and, S. Schouten, (2004), Crenarchaeotal membrane lipids in lake sediments: A new paleotemperature proxy for continental paleoclimate reconstruction? Geology, 32, 613-616, doi: 10.1130/G20434.1.
53. Powers, L. A., T. C. Johnson, J. P. Werne, I. S. Castañeda, E. C. Hopmans, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, and, S. Schouten, (2005), Large temperature variability in the southern African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08706, doi: 10.1029/2004GL022014.
54. Prahl, F. G., L. A. Muehlhausen, and, D. L. Zahnle, (1988), Further evaluation of long-chain alkenones as indicators of paleoceanographic conditions, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 52, 2303-2310, doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(88)90132-9.
55. Prahl, F. G., A. C. Mix, and, M. A. Sparrow, (2006), Alkenone paleothermometry: Biological lessons from marine sediment records off western South America, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 70, 101-117, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2005.08.023.
56. Rossignol-Strick, M., W. Nesteroff, P. Olive, and, C. Vergnaud-Grazzini, (1982), After the deluge: Mediterranean stagnation and sapropel formation, Nature, 295, 105-110, doi: 10.1038/295105a0.
57. Schilman, B., A. Almogi-Labin, M. Bar-Matthews, L. Labeyrie, M. Paterne, and, B. Luz, (2001), Long-and short-term carbon fluctuations in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Holocene, Geology, 29, 1099-1102, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<1099:LASTCF>2.0.CO;2.
58. Schilman, B., A. Almogi-Labin, M. Bar-Matthews, and, B. Luz, (2003), Late Holocene productivity and hydrographic variability in the eastern Mediterranean inferred from benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes, Paleoceanography, 18 (3), 1064, doi: 10.1029/2002PA000813.
59. Schouten, S., E. C. Hopmans, E. Schefuß, and, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, (2002), Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: A new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 204, 265-274, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00979-2.
60. 86 paleothermometry by high-performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry, Anal. Chem., 79, 2940-2944, doi: 10.1021/ac062339v.
61. Shah, S. R., G. Mollenhauer, N. Ohkouchi, T. I. Eglinton, and, A. Pearson, (2008), Origins of archaeal tetraether lipids in sediments: Insights from radiocarbon analysis, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 4577-4594, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.021.
62. Sierro, F. J., et al., (2005), Impact of iceberg melting on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during Heinrich events, Paleoceanography, 20, PA2019, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001051.
63. Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., and, E. C. Hopmans, (2008), Does fossil pigment and DNA data from Mediterranean sediments invalidate the use of green sulfur bacterial pigments and their diagenetic derivatives as proxies for the assessment of past photic zone euxinia? Environ. Microbiol., 10, 1392-1399, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01609.x.
64. 14C age calibration program, Radiocarbon, 35, 215-230.
65. Talbot, M. R., M. A. J. Williams, and, D. A. Adamson, (2000), Strontium isotope evidence for late Pleistocene reestablishment of an integrated Nile drainage network, Geology, 28, 343-346, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<343:SIEFLP>2.0.CO;2.
66. Talbot, M. R., M. L. Filippi, N. B. Jensen, and, J.-J. Tiercelin, (2007), An abrupt change in the African monsoon at the end of the Younger Dryas, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q03005, doi: 10.1029/2006GC001465.
67. Ternois, Y., M. A. Sicre, A. Boireau, M. H. Conte, and, G. Eglinton, (1997), Evaluation of long-chain alkenones as paleo-temperature indicators in the Mediterranean Sea, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 44, 271-286, doi: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)89915-3.
68. Tierney, J. E., J. M. Russell, Y. S. Huang, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, E. C. Hopmans, and, A. S. Cohen, (2008), Northern Hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years, Science, 322, 252-255, doi: 10.1126/science.1160485.
69. van Straaten, L. M. J. U., (1972), Holocene stages of oxygen depletion in deep waters of the Adriatic Sea, in The Mediterranean Sea, edited by, D. J. Stanley, pp. 631-643, Dowden Hutchinson Ross, Stroudsburg, Pa.
70. k′ values for Isochrysis galbana as a function of culture temperature, light intensity and nutrient concentrations, Org. Geochem., 32, 785-794, doi: 10.1016/S0146-6380(01)00041-9.
71. Wadie, W. F., (1984), The effect of regulation of the Nile River discharge on the oceanographic conditions and productivity of the southeastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, Acta Adriat., 25, 29-43.
72. 86 proxy and the BIT index, Org. Geochem., 37, 1680-1693, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.07.018.
73. 86Sr ratios, Chem. Geol., 186, 139-149, doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(01)00415-6.
74. Weldeab, S., D. W. Lea, R. R. Schneider, and, N. Andersen, (2007), 155,000 years of West African monsoon and ocean thermal evolution, Science, 316, 1303-1307, doi: 10.1126/science.1140461.
75. Williams, M., M. Talbot, P. Aharon, Y. A. Salaam, F. Williams, and, K. I. Brendeland, (2006), Abrupt return of the summer monsoon 15,000 years ago: New supporting evidence from the lower White Nile valley and Lake Albert, Quat. Sci. Rev., 25, 2651-2665, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.019.
76. 86 paleothermometry, Paleoceanography, 19, PA4028, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001041.
77. 86 paleothermometry, Paleoceanography, 20, PA3013, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001110.
78. Ziveri, P., A. Rutten, D. J. de Lange, J. Thomson, and, C. Corselli, (2000), Present-day coccolith fluxes recorded in central eastern Mediterranean sediment traps and surface sediments, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 158, 175-195, doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00049-3.