Low-latitude climate variability in the Heinrich frequency band of the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world
de Winter, N.J.; Zeeden, C.; Hilgen, F.J. (2014). Low-latitude climate variability in the Heinrich frequency band of the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world. Clim. Past 10(3): 1001-1015. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1001-2014
In: Climate of the Past. Copernicus: Göttingen. ISSN 1814-9324; e-ISSN 1814-9332, more
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- de Winter, N.J., more
- Zeeden, C.
- Hilgen, F.J.
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| Abstract |
Deep marine successions of early Campanian age from DSDP (Deep Sea Drilling Project) site 516F drilled at low paleolatitudes in the South Atlantic reveal distinct sub-Milankovitch variability in addition to precession, obliquity and eccentricity-related variations. Elemental abundance ratios point to a similar climatic origin for these variations and exclude a quadripartite structure as an explanation for the inferred semi-precession cyclicity in the magnetic susceptibility (MS) signal as observed in the Mediterranean Neogene for precession-related cycles. However, semi-precession cycles as suggested by previous work are likely an artifact reflecting the first harmonic of the precession signal. The sub-Milankovitch variability, especially in MS, is best approximated by a similar to 7 kyr cycle as shown by spectral analysis and bandpass filtering. The presence of sub-Milankovitch cycles with a period similar to that of Heinrich events of the last glacial cycle is consistent with linking the latter to low-latitude climate change caused by a non-linear response to precession-induced variations in insolation between the tropics. |
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