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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5607-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5607-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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12 Dec 2017
Research article |
| 12 Dec 2017
Reconstructing Holocene temperature and salinity variations in the western Baltic Sea region: a multi-proxy comparison from the Little Belt (IODP Expedition 347, Site M0059)
Ulrich Kotthoff
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Geology, University of Hamburg, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
Jeroen Groeneveld
MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany
Jeanine L. Ash
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90024,
USA
Anne-Sophie Fanget
Centre for Past Climate Studies, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Centre de formation et de recherche sur les environnements méditerranées, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan CEDEX, France
Nadine Quintana Krupinski
Department of Geology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Odile Peyron
Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, UMR 5554, University of Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 05, France
Anna Stepanova
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843,
USA
Jonathan Warnock
Department of Geoscience, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, 15705, USA
Niels A. G. M. Van Helmond
Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Benjamin H. Passey
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109,
USA
Ole Rønø Clausen
Centre for Past Climate Studies, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Ole Bennike
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
Elinor Andrén
School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, 14189 Huddinge, Sweden
Wojciech Granoszewski
Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute Krakow, 31-560 Kraków, Poland
Thomas Andrén
School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, 14189 Huddinge, Sweden
Helena L. Filipsson
Department of Geology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Centre for Past Climate Studies, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Caroline P. Slomp
Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Thorsten Bauersachs
Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Institute of Geosciences, Department of Organic Geochemistry, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Data sets
Ostracod valve counts at IODP Site 347-M0059 (Baltic Sea), upper 52.3 meters composite depth A. Y. Stepanova https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873270
Short summary
We present reconstructions of paleotemperature, paleosalinity, and paleoecology from the Little Belt (Site M0059) over the past ~ 8000 years and evaluate the applicability of numerous proxies. Conditions were lacustrine until ~ 7400 cal yr BP. A transition to brackish–marine conditions then occurred within ~ 200 years. Salinity proxies rarely allowed quantitative estimates but revealed congruent results, while quantitative temperature reconstructions differed depending on the proxies used.
We present reconstructions of paleotemperature, paleosalinity, and paleoecology from the Little...
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