Antarctic deglacial pattern in a 30 kyr record of sea surface temperature offshore South Australia

Abstract

Comparison of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica shows an asynchronous two-step warming at these high latitudes during the Last Termination. However, the question whether this asynchrony extends to lower latitudes is unclear mainly due to the scarcity of paleorecords from the Southern Hemisphere. New data from a marine core collected off South Australia (~36°S) allows a detailed reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures over the Last Termination. This confirms the existence of an Antarctic-type deglacial pattern and shows no indication of cooling associated with the Northern Hemisphere YD event. The SST record also provides a new comparison with the more extensive paleoclimatic data available from continental Australia. This shows a strong climatic link between onshore and offshore records for Australia and to Southern Hemisphere paleorecords. We also show a progressive SST drop over the last ~6.5 kyr not seen before for the Australian region.

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Antarctic deglacial pattern in a 30 kyr record of sea surface
temperature offshore South Australia
Eva Calvo,
1
Carles Pelejero,
2
Patrick De Deckker,
3
and Graham A. Logan
4
Received 8 March 2007; revised 5 June 2007; accepted 18 June 2007; published 14 July 2007.
[1] Comparison of ice cores from Greenland and
Antarctica shows an asynchronous two-step warming at
these high latitudes during the Last Termination. However,
the question whether this asynchrony extends to lower
latitudes is unclear mainly due to the scarcity of
paleorecords from the Southern Hemisphere. New data
from a marine core collected off South Australia (36°S)
allows a detailed reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures
over the Last Termination. This confirms the existence of an
Antarctic-type deglacial pattern and shows no indication of
cooling associated with the Northern Hemisphere YD event.
The SST record also provides a new comparison with the
more extensive paleoclimatic data available from continental
Australia. This shows a strong climatic link between onshore
and offshore records for Australia and to Southern
Hemisphere paleorecords. We also show a progressive SST
drop over the last 6.5 kyr not seen before for the
Australian region. Citation: Calvo, E., C. Pelejero, P. De
Deckker, and G. A. Logan (2007), Antarctic deglacial pattern in a
30 kyr record of sea surface temperature offshore South Australia,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,34, L13707, doi:10.1029/2007GL029937.
1. Introduction
[2] Comparison of climate records from Greenland and
Antarctic ice cores, with the exception of the coastal
Antarctic site of Taylor Dome, has provided evidence for
an asynchronous pattern in the evolution of air temperatures
during the last ice age and Termination I [Blunier and
Brook, 2001]. During the last deglaciation, the Antarctic
Cold Reversal (ACR), that interrupted the deglacial warm-
ing in Antarctica, coincided with the warm Bølling-Allerød
in Greenland and occurred 1 kyr before its northern
hemisphere cold counterpart, the Younger Dryas (YD) event
[Jouzel et al., 1995]. This north-south asymmetry is con-
sistent with the bipolar seesaw hypothesis which proposes a
response to changes in the thermohaline circulation and heat
transport, causing Antarctica to cool when Greenland
warms and vice versa [Broecker, 1998]. While it appears
that climate changes in Greenland ice cores have been
synchronously recorded in most Northern Hemisphere
latitudes, evidence from the Southern Hemisphere is sparse.
In a compilation of SST records from the Pacific Ocean
[Kiefer and Kienast, 2005], only one SST record presented a
clear Antarctic pattern during the deglaciation [Pahnke et
al., 2003]. The only other record from the Southern Hemi-
sphere with enough temporal resolution to show an ACR
was a d
18
O record from the South Atlantic [Charles et al.,
1996] and more recently a U
37
k
0
SST record from the SE
Pacific [Kaiser et al., 2005].
[3] Here we present a new alkenone-derived sea-surface
temperature (SST) record from offshore southern Australia,
which covers the last deglaciation and the Holocene in
detail. These new data provide support for the idea that
deglacial SSTs in the mid latitudes of the Southern Hemi-
sphere evolved in synchrony with Antarctica. They also
offer a detailed Holocene marine record, still very scarce in
this area, to compare with the more extensive climatological
information from continental Australia.
2. Materials and Methods
[4] Sediment gravity core MD03-2611 (36°44
0
S,
136°33
0
E, 11.97 m long) was recovered from the Murray
Canyons area, off Kangaroo Island, South Australia during
the AUSCAN 2003 cruise (Figure 1) [Hill and De Deckker,
2004]. The site is located at 2,420 m water depth on a small
plateau over a ridge, avoiding the processes of erosion and
sediment redistribution that occur within the main canyons.
It is more than 200 km away from the present mouth of the
Murray River and 50 km away from the present 100 m
depth contour, which roughly delimits the broad continental
shelf, and sedimentation is mostly pelagic. A description of
the core and its mineralogical content is available in the
work of Gingele et al. [2004].
[5] Alkenone analyses on selected core samples were
performed following published methods [Calvo et al.,
2003] and alkenone-derived SSTs were reconstructed using
the relationship U
37
k
0
= 0.033 SST + 0.044 [Mu¨ller et al.,
1998], which provides annually averaged SSTs. The
accepted error bar is of the order of 1°C. The core-top
estimate provides a SST of 17.6°C, slightly warmer than the
modern annual mean of 16.5°C at 0 m depth [Conkright et
al., 2002]. This difference is probably due to the absence of
the most recent sediments from the top of the gravity core as
confirmed by a
14
C AMS date of the core-top sediment,
which provides a calibrated age of 683 years. A preferential
alkenone production during summer/autumm, when
upwelling develops along the coast of of the southern Eyre
Peninsula [Ka¨mpf et al., 2004], could also slightly bias the
reconstructed SSTs towards warmer values (SSTsummer =
18.4°C; SSTautumm = 17.1°C).
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Institut de Cie`ncies del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain.
2
Institucio´ Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ ats and Institut de
Cie`ncies del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,
Barcelona, Spain.
3
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
4
Petroleum and Marine Division, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT,
Australia.
Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.
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[6] Oxygen isotopes were analysed on the planktonic
foraminifera Globigerinoides bulloides on a Finnigan
MAT251 mass spectrometer at GEOMAR (Germany). This
species was also used to establish the age model by means
of 16 AMS
14
C dates. From 0 to 26 cal kyr BP, radiocarbon
ages were converted into calendar ages using the Calib 5.01
software and the marine calibration dataset MARINE04
[Hughen et al., 2004], which includes a marine reservoir
correction of 400 years. The oldest
14
C age (24860
14
Cyr)
was calibrated using the CALPAL program and the CalPal
2005 SFCP calibration curve (available at http:/www.
calpal.de). According to this age model, the 765 cm
analysed in this study cover the last 30 kyr and sedimen-
tation rate averaged 27.6 cm/kyr. Thus, the 10-cm
sampling interval provides a time resolution of 360 years
for the alkenone record. The d
18
O record also present the
same time resolution for the top 400 cm of the core.
For the bottom 350 cm (between 16.8 and 30 kyr),
we sampled every 25 cm which provides a time resolution
of 890 years.
3. Results
[7] The alkenone-derived SST record shows a large
deglacial warming, up to 8°C, from 11°Cat19 cal kyr
BP (the coldest SST recorded during the Last Glacial
Maximum (LGM: 21 ± 2 kyr [Mix et al., 2001]) to
19.3°C at the beginning of the Holocene (Figure 2). A
similar amplitude was found using amino-acid racemization
in emu eggshells from Central Australia with a deglacial
average air temperature increase of 9°C[Miller et al., 1997].
SST amplitudes of 7 – 10°C were also found along the
Chilean margin at 35°S[Romero et al., 2006] and in
subantarctic waters southeast of New Zealand [Barrows et
al., 2000]. However, this change of 8°C is still considerable
when compared with other mid-latitude SST records of the
Southern Hemisphere (Figure 3). It is likely that the present
influence of the Leeuwin Current, which brings warm and
low-salinity waters from the Indian Ocean to the southern
Australian coast as far east as 130°E[Rochford, 1986], was
much reduced or absent during the LGM. This, together
with a greater influence of cold Southern Ocean waters
during the LGM would cause a larger SST amplitude than
expected for these latitudes.
[8] The deglacial warming is accomplished in two steps,
with an interruption between 15 and 13.3 kyr BP, which is
also captured by the d
18
O record. The first warming (5°C)
occurred between 19 and 15.5 kyr BP and the second
(3.5°C) between 13.3 and 11 kyr BP. After a small cooling
(0.6°C) at 11 kyr BP, SSTs exhibited a broad maximum
between 5.5 and 8 kyr BP, reaching the highest values of the
whole record (19.8°C) at 7.5 kyr BP. The record shows
small SST variability during this Holocene broad thermal
maximum, a period followed by a gradual decrease of 2°C
towards modern SST values.
[9]Thed
18
O record closely follows the glacial and
deglacial pattern displayed by the alkenone record, with a
2.2%change between glacial and Holocene sections
(Figure 2). Considering that the ice volume contribution
to this change is about 1%[Schrag et al.,1996],the
remaining 1.2%should reflect changes in local SST and
salinity. Given the 8°C warming recorded by the U
37
k
0
index, seawater d
18
O is expected to change by 1.6%over
the deglaciation [Bemis et al., 2002]. Accordingly, the 0.4%
isotopic difference is ascribed to an increase in local salinity
of about 0.8 units since the last glacial period (assuming a
change of 0.5%per 1 salinity unit). The decrease in salinity
during the LGM may be related to a northward displace-
Figure 1. Map showing location of marine core MD03-2611 (36°44
0
S, 136°33
0
E). Also displayed other marine and ice
cores discussed in the text.
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ment of the Subtropical Front (STF: present location
between 38– 40°S) and its associated salinity gradient.
Pahnke et al. [2003] also found a consistent decrease in
salinity during glacial times east of New Zealand, which
was attributed to a major influence of fresher subantarctic
waters from the south of the STF. Alternatively, the expo-
sure of the shallow shelf during the sea level drop at the
LGM may have also prevented the formation of the high
salinity surface waters that are formed today in the Spencer
Gulf, north of Kangaroo Island, as a result of strong summer
evaporation [Lennon et al., 1987].
[10] During the late Holocene, however, the evolution of
the d
18
O and alkenone records differs significantly. The
consistent cooling observed in the alkenone record for
the last 6 kyr is not identified in the isotope record. Instead,
the d
18
O measurements reach Holocene values at about
12 kyr BP and then follow a progressive depletion towards
the lowest d
18
O values of the whole record at the top of the
core. The contrasting evolution of the two proxies suggests
a significant influence of salinity in the planktonic d
18
O
record at this time.
4. Discussion
[11] The deglacial warming at site MD03-2611 closely
resembles the atmospheric temperature evolution recon-
structed in Antarctica since the end of the LGM, both in
timing and structure (Figure 2). The clear reversal in SST
and d
18
O observed during the deglaciation is synchronous
with the ACR described in Antarctic ice cores around 14 –
12.5 kyr BP [Jouzel et al., 1995], suggesting a close
coupling between mid- and high-southern latitudes. After
this reversal, SSTs increased gradually to the Holocene,
providing no evidence of any cooling associated with the
YD cold event (12.9– 11.5 kyr BP). Whether this event,
which is characteristic of the Northern Hemisphere, also
affected the Southern Hemisphere has been the subject of
considerable debate. Denton and Hendy [1994] reported an
advance of the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand during
the YD, pointing to inter-hemispheric deglacial symmetry.
However, other terrestrial reconstructions from New
Zealand provided contrasting results, more indicative of
asymmetry between hemispheres [i.e., Turn ey et al. ,
2003]. In the mid to high latitudes of South America,
studies on the existence of cooling related to the YD are
also contradictory [i.e., Glasser et al., 2004].
[12] An Antarctic-type deglacial pattern has been
reported in high resolution marine sediment cores using
alkenone- and Mg/Ca-SST methods from the southeast
Pacific and east of New Zealand [Kaiser et al., 2005; Lamy
et al., 2004; Pahnke et al., 2003]. In Figure 3, we compare
our MD03-2611 SST record with the three high resolution
Figure 2. (top) G. bulloides d
18
O record and (bottom) alkenone-derived SST record from core MD03-2611. Also plotted
Antarctica air temperatures, dD (shaded area [EPICA Community Members, 2004]). The vertical bar indicates the Antarctic
Cold Reversal (ACR).
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and radiocarbon-dated alkenone-derived SST records avail-
able from these mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.
All four SST records show a synchronous onset of deglacial
warming at 19 kyr, comparable with the start of deglaci-
ation in Antarctica and SST records from tropical and
subtropical latitudes of the Pacific Ocean [Kiefer and
Kienast, 2005]. With the exception of core MD97-2121,
from north of Chatman Rise, all records display cooling
associated to the ACR. This cooling is clear in cores MD03-
2611 and ODP1233, off Chile, but only represents an
interruption of the warming in core MD97-2120, east of
New Zealand. However, Mg/Ca data from the same core
show a 1.5°C cooling during the ACR [Pahnke et al., 2003].
There is no evidence of cooling associated to the YD cold
event in any of the alkenone-derived SST deglacial records.
This contrasts with recent results from planktonic forami-
nifera d
18
O in two studies, which have been interpreted as
evidences of cooling associated to the YD in the mid to high
latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. These studies
reported d
18
O enrichments at the time of the YD for a core
also retrieved South of Australia [Andres et al., 2003] and
for two cores from South of New Zealand, close to the Ross
Sea [Morigi et al., 2003]. Given the compilation of alke-
none-derived SST data described above (Figure 3) and that
foraminifera d
18
O is influenced by other parameters in
addition to SST, we suggest that the isotopic enrichment
may not solely be related to sea surface cooling.
[13] Considering that higher SST promotes evaporation,
formation of clouds and precipitation, alkenone-derived
SSTs in core MD03-2611 agree with the present knowledge
of the history of rainfall and moisture in continental
Southern Australia during the Holocene. The cold temper-
atures of the last 4 kyr coincide with a period of increased
aridity in southeastern Australia [Cupper, 2005; Harrison,
1993]. Drier conditions have also been inferred from the
mineralogical and isotopic study of the terrestrial compo-
nent of MD03-2611 [Gingele et al., 2007]. The d
18
O record,
however, show the lightest values of the whole record
during the late Holocene, indicating the existence of low
salinity water masses. Salinity changes can be driven by
Figure 3. Comparison of high resolution alkenone-derived SST records available from the mid-latitudes of the Southern
Hemisphere [Kaiser et al., 2005; Pahnke and Sachs, 2006]. See Figure 1 for location of the marine cores. ACR is the
Antarctic Cold Reversal. Light shaded bar indicates the onset of deglacial warming at 19 ± 1 kyr.
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changes in the evaporation-precipitation balance and also by
the vertical/horizontal mixing of different water masses. The
arid conditions that prevailed in the area at that time cannot
account for these low salinity waters. Thus, changes in the
water masses bathing our core site is the most likely
explanation. A plausible mechanism to explain the cold
SSTs shown by the U
37
k
0
and the low salinities recorded by
the oxygen isotopes is a greater influence of Southern
Ocean waters versus the tropical waters of the Leeuwin
Current. Interestingly, marine cores from the western trop-
ical Pacific also show a similar trend during the Holocene,
with d
18
O decreasing from 10 ka to the present and Mg/Ca
ratios recording the lowest SSTs during the late Holocene
[Stott et al., 2004]. It may well be that the decrease in
salinity of the latter part of the Holocene is then a wider
feature across the Pacific Ocean, as already suggested by
Stott et al. [2004].
[14] Warmer SSTs coincide with higher precipitation
during the mid-Holocene, between 8 and 6 kyr BP, as
recorded in southeastern Australia lake levels [Bowler,
1981; Stanley and De Deckker, 2002] and in the history
of a swamp from the Fleurieu Peninsula [ Bickford and Gell ,
2005]. On the other hand, the progressive decrease in SST
from 6.5 kyr BP to modern times parallels other alkenone-
derived SST records from the mid latitudes of the Southern
Hemisphere, as recently reviewed by Lorenz et al. [2006].
Thus, our data gives support to the general finding that
Holocene SSTs experienced a warming in the tropics but a
cooling in the extratropics after 7 kyr BP.
5. Conclusions
[15] The reconstructed SSTs from core MD03-2611 rep-
resent the first continuous record of high temporal resolu-
tion for the Australian region over the last deglaciation. The
SST record shows significant colder conditions during the
Last Glacial Maximum, with temperatures 8°C lower than
during the early Holocene. This study confirms the exis-
tence of a cold reversal during the last deglaciation that
coincides with the ACR described in Antarctic ice cores. It
also provides no evidence of any cooling associated
with the northern hemisphere YD event. Thus, this new
alkenone-derived SST record corroborates the close link
between mid- and high-southern latitudes. Finally, the
SST evolution during the Holocene compares well with
information on hydrological and vegetation changes from
southeastern Australia showing a warm early Holocene at a
time of generally wetter conditions and a subsequent
decrease in temperature at a time of increasing aridity after
6.5 ka.
[16]Acknowledgments. We thank K. Pahnke for providing the
alkenone-SST data from core MD97-2120 and MD97-2121. E.C. and
C.P. acknowledge funding from the Spanish MEC and Generalitat de
Catalunya. The Australian National Oceans Office provided all the contract
funds for RV Marion Dufresne. Stable isotopes analyses were funded by an
ARC DP grant awarded to PDD. AMS dates were funded through AINSE
grant 05/036. We wish to also thank J. Shelley and A. Sturm for preparing
and running the foraminifera samples for isotopic analyses. G.A.L.
published with permission of the CEO Geoscience Australia.
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ciones Cientificas, Pg. Marı´tim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, E-08003
Barcelona, Spain. (ecalvo@icm.cat)
P. De Deckker, Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Australian
National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
G. A. Logan, Petroleum and Marine Division, Geoscience Australia,
GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
C. Pelejero, Institucio´ Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats and Institut
de Cie`ncies del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Pg.
Marı´tim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain.
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