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Grelaud, Michael; Marino, Gianluca; Ziveri, Patrizia; Rohling, Eelco J.. |
A detailed assessment of the respective roles of production, export, and subsequent preservation of organic carbon (C-org) in the eastern Mediterranean (EMED) sediments during the formation of sapropels remains elusive. Here we present new micropaleontological results for both surface samples taken at several locations in the EMED and last interglacial sapropel S5 from core LC21 in the southeastern Aegean Sea. A strong exponential anticorrelation between relative abundances of the lower photic zone coccolithophore Florisphaera profunda in the surface sediments and modern concentrations of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) at the sea surface suggests that F. profunda percentages can be used to track past productivity changes in the EMED. Prior to S5 deposition, an... |
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Ano: 2012 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00265/37632/36756.pdf |
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