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Millennial- to centennial-scale climate periodicities and forcing mechanisms in the westernmost Mediterranean for the past 20,000 yr

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Marta Rodrigo-Gámiz ,
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz ,
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar ,
Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo  and
Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza
Marta Rodrigo-Gámiz*
Affiliation:
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Granada (CSIC-UGR), Granada, Spain NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Affiliation:
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Granada (CSIC-UGR), Granada, Spain
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo
Affiliation:
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Granada (CSIC-UGR), Granada, Spain Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza
Affiliation:
Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Madrid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author at: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands. Fax: + 31 222 319 674. E-mail address:Marta.Rodrigo@nioz.nl (M. Rodrigo-Gámiz).
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Abstract

Cyclostratigraphic analysis conducted on a continuous high-resolution marine record from the western most Mediterranean reveals well-identified paleoclimate cycles for the last 20,000 yr. The detrital proxies used (Si/Al, Ti/Al, Zr/Al, Mg/Al, K/Al, Rb/Al) are related to different sediment-transport mechanisms, including eolian dust and fluvial runoff, which involve fluctuations in the atmosphere–hydrosphere systems. These fluctuations are accompanied by changes in marine productivity (supported by Ba/Al) and bottom-water redox conditions (Cu/Al, V/Al, Zn/Al, Fe/Al, Mn/Al, U/Th). Spectral analysis conducted using the Lomb–Scargle periodogram and the achieved significance level implemented with the permutation test allowed us to establish major periodicities at 1300, 1515, 2000, and 5000 yr, and secondary peaks at 650, 1087, and 3000 yr. Some of these cycles also agree with those previously described in the North Atlantic Ocean and circum-Mediterranean records. The periodicities obtained at 2000 and 5000 yr support a global connection with records distributed at high, mid, and low latitudes associated with solar activity, monsoonal regime and orbital forcing. The 1300- and 1515-yr cycles appear to be linked with North Atlantic climate variability and the African monsoon system. Thus, the analyzed record provides evidence of climate cycles and plausible forcing mechanisms coupled with ocean–atmosphere fluctuations.

Keywords

Geochemical proxiesSpectral cyclesForcing mechanismLast deglaciationWestern Mediterranean
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Quaternary Research , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 78 - 93
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University of Washington

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