Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium

Longbin Sha; Dongling Li; Yanguang Liu; Bin Wu; Yanni Wu; Karen Luise Knudsen; Zhongqiao Li; Hao Xu

doi:10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3

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Longbin Sha, Dongling Li, Yanguang Liu, Bin Wu, Yanni Wu, Karen Luise Knudsen, Zhongqiao Li, Hao Xu. Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(9): 78-85. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3

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Longbin Sha, Dongling Li, Yanguang Liu, Bin Wu, Yanni Wu, Karen Luise Knudsen, Zhongqiao Li, Hao Xu. Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(9): 78-85. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3

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Longbin Sha, Dongling Li, Yanguang Liu, Bin Wu, Yanni Wu, Karen Luise Knudsen, Zhongqiao Li, Hao Xu. Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(9): 78-85. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3

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Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium

doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3

Longbin Sha^{1, 2, 3},
Dongling Li^{1
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Yanguang Liu^{2, 4
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Bin Wu⁵,
Yanni Wu¹,
Karen Luise Knudsen⁶,
Zhongqiao Li⁵,
Hao Xu¹

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Department of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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Laboratory for Marine Geology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
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State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
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Centre for Past Climate Studies and Arctic Research Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark

Funds: The Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research under contract No. SKLEC-KF201708; the Project of Laboratory for Marine Geology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) under contract No. MGQNLM201707; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41776193, 41876215, 41876070 and 41406209; the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under contract Nos LY17D060001 and LQ15D020001; the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) under contract No. 2018SDKJ0104-3.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: lidongling@nbu.edu.cn and yanguangliu@fio.org.cn; yanguangliu@fio.org.cn
Received Date: 2019-12-09
Accepted Date: 2019-12-19

Available Online: 2020-12-28

Publish Date: 2020-09-25

Abstract

Abstract

We analyzed the biogenic silica (BSi) content and produced a diatom-based summer sea-surface temperature (SST) reconstruction for sediment core GC4 from the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland. Our aim was to reconstruct marine productivity and climatic fluctuations during the last millennium. Increased BSi content and diatom abundance suggest relatively high marine productively during the interval of AD 1000–1400, corresponding in time to the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). The summer SST reconstruction indicates relatively warm conditions during AD 900–1100, followed by cooling after AD 1100. An extended cooling period during AD 1400–1900 is characterized by prolonged low in reconstructed SST and high sea-ice concentration. The BSi values fluctuated during this period, suggesting varying marine productivity during the Little Ice Age (LIA). There is no significant correlation between the BSi content and SST during the last millennium, suggesting that the summer SST has little influence on marine productively in the Holsteinsborg Dyb. A good correspondence between the BSi content and the element Ti counts in core GC4 suggests that silicate-rich meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet was likely responsible for changes in marine productively in the Holsteinsborg Dyb.
- biogenic silica,
- marine productivity,
- sea-surface temperature,
- sea-ice concentration

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