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REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 3-14Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA PALEONTOLOGIA
DOI: 10.4072/rbp.2016.1.01
Keywords
Western South Atlantic; planktonic foraminifera; late Quaternary; marine isotope stage; glacial; interglacial
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- CNPq [304453/2013-7]
- [PRH-PB-215]
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This work reconstructs Late Quaternary paleoceanographic changes in the western South Atlantic Ocean based on sedimentary core GL-77, recovered from the lower continental slope in the Campos basin, offshore SE Brazil. The studied interval comprises the last 130 ka. Changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and paleoproductivity were estimated using the total planktonic foraminiferal fauna and oxygen isotope analyses. The age model was based on the oxygen isotope record, biostratigraphic datums and AMS C-14 dating. It was observed that the Pleistocene/Holocene transition occurs within Globorotalia menardii Biozone Y, and is not coeval with the base of Biozone Z. The range between summer and winter SST estimates is larger during the glacial period compared to interglacials. Three peaks of low SST around 70, 50-45 and 20 ka coincided with periods of enhanced SE trade winds. Despite faunal differences between the last interglacial (MIS 5e) and the Holocene, our SST estimates suggest that SSTs did not differ significantly between these intervals.
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