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Pre-aged terrigenous organic carbon biases ocean ventilation-age reconstructions in the North Atlantic

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  • Jingyu Liu

    (Ocean University of China
    Pilot Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology)

  • Yipeng Wang

    (Ocean University of China
    Pilot Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology)

  • Samuel L. Jaccard

    (University of Lausanne
    University of Bern)

  • Nan Wang

    (Ocean University of China)

  • Xun Gong

    (China University of Geosciences
    Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences))

  • Nianqiao Fang

    (China University of Geosciences (Beijing))

  • Rui Bao

    (Ocean University of China
    Pilot Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology)

Abstract

Changes in ocean ventilation have been pivotal in regulating carbon sequestration and release on centennial to millennial timescales. However, paleoceanographic reconstructions documenting changes in deep-ocean ventilation using 14C dating, may bear multidimensional explanations, obfuscating the roles of ocean ventilation played on climate evolution. Here, we show that previously inferred poorly ventilated conditions in the North Atlantic were linked to enhanced pre-aged organic carbon (OC) input during Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1). The 14C age of sedimentary OC was approximately 13,345 ± 692 years older than the coeval foraminifera in the central North Atlantic during HS1, which is coupled to a ventilation age of 5,169 ± 660 years. Old OC was mainly of terrigenous origin and exported to the North Atlantic by ice-rafting. Remineralization of old terrigenous OC in the ocean may have contributed to, at least in part, the anomalously old ventilation ages reported for the high-latitude North Atlantic during HS1.

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  • Jingyu Liu & Yipeng Wang & Samuel L. Jaccard & Nan Wang & Xun Gong & Nianqiao Fang & Rui Bao, 2023. "Pre-aged terrigenous organic carbon biases ocean ventilation-age reconstructions in the North Atlantic," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-39490-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39490-6
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