Stable isotopic records of the glacial deep-water properties in the South China Sea |
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| Authors: | Zhimin Jian |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Marine Geology of State Education Commission, Tongji University, 200092 Shanghai, China |
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| Abstract: | Based on the oxygen and carbon stable isotopic records of benthic foraminifera in nine deep-sea cores of the South China Sea
(SCS), the bathymetric profiles of δ18O and δ13C since the last glacial maximum (LGM) are preliminarily established. The bathymetric gradients of deep-water δ18O and δ13C in the SCS are obviously greater during the LGM than during the Holocene, showing the existence of the deep thermocline
and nutricline at water depth of about 2 000 m. Particularly, the differences in δ18O and δ13C between the LGM and Holocene, from which the ice-volume effect and the global mean shift have been subtracted respectively,
are positive values at water depths of 1 000–2 500 m in the SCS. This indicates the existence of deep-water mass with relatively
cool temperature or higher salinity, better ventilation and more δ13C within the water depth range of the SCS during the LGM, which is distinctly different from that at present. These changes
further confirm the existence of the glacial “North Pacific Deep Water” which, however, is possibly confined to the water
depth range of 1 000–2 500 m.
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 49576286 and 49732060). |
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| Keywords: | stable isotope deep thermocline and nutricline North Pacific Deep Water the South China Sea |
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