Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event

Liang Yi; Haifeng Wang; Geng Liu; Yanping Chen; Huiqiang Yao; Xiguang Deng

doi:10.1007/s13131-021-1872-5

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Liang Yi, Haifeng Wang, Geng Liu, Yanping Chen, Huiqiang Yao, Xiguang Deng. Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(12): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1872-5

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Liang Yi, Haifeng Wang, Geng Liu, Yanping Chen, Huiqiang Yao, Xiguang Deng. Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(12): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1872-5

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Liang Yi, Haifeng Wang, Geng Liu, Yanping Chen, Huiqiang Yao, Xiguang Deng. Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(12): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1872-5

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Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event

doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1872-5

Liang Yi^{1
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Haifeng Wang^{2, 3
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Geng Liu⁴,
Yanping Chen⁴,
Huiqiang Yao^{2, 3},
Xiguang Deng^{2, 3}

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State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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Ministry of Natural Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Guangzhou 510075, China
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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 510301, China
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Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China

Funds: The Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under contract No. 19ZR1459800; the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) under contract No. GML2019ZD0106; the Project of Global Changing and Air-sea Interaction under contract No. GASI-GEOGE-04.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: yiliang@tongji.edu.cn; wanghaifeng112@163.com
Received Date: 2021-04-23
Accepted Date: 2021-06-16

Available Online: 2021-09-10

Publish Date: 2021-11-25

Abstract

Abstract

Seamounts are ubiquitous topographic units in global oceans, and their influences on local oceanic circulation have attracted great attention in physical oceanography; however, previous efforts were less made in paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. The Caiwei Guyot in the Magellan Seamounts of the western Pacific is a typical seamount, and in this study, we investigate a well-dated sediment core by magnetic properties to reveal the relationship between deep-sea sedimentary processes and global climate changes. The principal results are as follows: (1) the dominant magnetic minerals in the sediments are low-coercivity magnetite in pseudo-single domain range, probably including a biogenic contribution; (2) the variabilities of magnetic parameters can be clustered into two sections at ~500 ka, and the differences between the two units are evident in amplitudes and means; (3) changes in the grainsize-dependent magnetic parameters can be well correlated to records of global ice volume and atmospheric CO₂ in the middle Pleistocene. Based on these results, a close linkage was proposed between deep-sea sedimentary processes in the Caiwei Guyot and global climate changes. This linkage likely involves different roles of biogenic magnetite in the sediments between interglacial and glacial intervals, responding to changes in marine productivity and deep-sea circulation and displaying a major change in the Mid-Brunhes climate event. Therefore, we proposed that the sedimentary archives at the bottom of the Caiwei Guyot record some key signals of global climate changes, providing a unique window to observe interactions between various environmental systems on glacial-interglacial timescales.
- Caiwei Guyot,
- middle Pleistocene,
- magnetic properties,
- mid-Brunhes event,
- abyssal sediments,
- western Pacific,
- Magellan Seamounts

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