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Helena Filipsson, foto Erik Thor

Helena Filipsson

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Helena Filipsson, foto Erik Thor

Surface salinity and nutrient variations during the Littorina Stage in the Fårö Deep, Baltic Sea

Författare

  • Pi Willumsen
  • Helena Filipsson
  • Maja Reinholdsson
  • Conny Lenz

Summary, in English

Early to late Holocene sediments from core F80, Fårö Deep, Baltic Sea, are investigated for their palynomorph composition and dinoflagellate cyst record to map variations in sea-surface-water salinity and palaeoproductivity during the past 6000 years. The F80 palynomorph assemblages are subdivided into four Assemblage Zones (AZs) named A to D. The transition from the stratigraphically oldest AZ A to B reflects a marked increase in palaeoproductivity and a gradual increase in surface-water salinity over the ~1500 years between the Initial Littorina (former Mastogloia Sea Stage) and Littorina Sea Stage. A period with maximum sea-surface salinity is recorded within the overlying AZ C from 7200 to 5200 cal. a BP, where the process length of Operculodinium centrocarpum indicates that average salinities were probably the highest (~15–17 versus 7.5 psu today) since the last glaciation. The change from AZ C to D correlates with a shift from laminated to non-laminated sediments, and the dinoflagellate cyst assemblages suggest that the surface- and the deep-water environment altered from c. 5250 cal. a BP, with less productivity in the surface water and more oxygenated conditions in the deep water. Here we demonstrate that by mapping overall palynomorph composition, dinoflagellate cyst assemblages and variations in the process length of O. centrocarpum in relation to periods of laminated/non-laminated sedimentation have great potential to track past regional changes in surface salinity, primary productivity and deep-water oxygenation status. An understanding of past productivity changes is particularly important to better understand present-day environmental changes within the Baltic Sea region.

Avdelning/ar

  • Kvartärgeologi
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

210-223

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Boreas

Volym

42

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • Palynology
  • dinoflagellate cysts
  • salinity and nutrient variations
  • paleoproductivity
  • early-late Holocene marine sediments
  • Baltic Sea
  • Fårö Deep

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1502-3885