Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1791-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1791-2017
Research article
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13 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 13 Dec 2017

A multi-proxy analysis of Late Quaternary ocean and climate variability for the Maldives, Inner Sea

Dorothea Bunzel, Gerhard Schmiedl, Sebastian Lindhorst, Andreas Mackensen, Jesús Reolid, Sarah Romahn, and Christian Betzler

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We investigated a sediment core from the Maldives to unravel the interaction between equatorial climate and ocean variability of the past 200 000 years. The sedimentological, geochemical and foraminiferal data records reveal enhanced dust, which was transported by intensified winter monsoon winds during glacial conditions. Precessional fluctuations of bottom water oxygen suggests an expansion of the Arabian Sea OMZ and a varying inflow of Antarctic Intermediate Water.