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Climate of the Past

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10.5194/cp-8-17-2012

Ventilation changes in the western North Pacific since the last glacial period

Okazaki

¹ Sagawa

² Asahi

³ Horikawa

⁴ Onodera

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Senior Research Fellow Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

03 01 2012

8 1 17 24

2012

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We reconstructed the ventilation record of deep water at 2100 m depth in the mid-latitude western North Pacific over the past 25 kyr from radiocarbon measurements of coexisting planktic and benthic foraminiferal shells in sediment with a high sedimentation rate. The 14C data on fragile and robust planktic foraminiferal shells were concordant with each other, ensuring high quality of the reconstructed ventilation record. The radiocarbon activity changes were consistent with the atmospheric record, suggesting that no massive mixing of old carbon from the abyssal reservoir occurred throughout the glacial to deglacial periods.

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