[HTML][HTML] The giant Mauritanian cold-water coral mound province: Oxygen control on coral mound formation

C Wienberg, J Titschack, A Freiwald, N Frank… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The largest coherent cold-water coral (CWC) mound province in the Atlantic Ocean exists
along the Mauritanian margin, where up to 100 m high mounds extend over a distance of∼ …

Late quaternary abrupt climate change in the tropics and sub‐tropics: the continental signal of tropical hydroclimatic events (THEs)

RS Bradley, HF Diaz - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical hydroclimatic events, characterized by extreme regional rainfall anomalies, were a
recurrent feature of marine isotope stages 2–4 and involved some of the most abrupt and …

Global oceanic oxygenation controlled by the Southern Ocean through the last deglaciation

Y Wang, KM Costa, W Lu, SKV Hines, SG Nielsen - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Ocean dissolved oxygen (DO) can provide insights on how the marine carbon cycle affects
global climate change. However, the net global DO change and the controlling mechanisms …

A comparison of benthic foraminiferal Mn/Ca and sedimentary Mn/Al as proxies of relative bottom-water oxygenation in the low-latitude NE Atlantic upwelling system

CL McKay, J Groeneveld, HL Filipsson… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
Trace element incorporation into foraminiferal shells (tests) is governed by physical and
chemical conditions of the surrounding marine environment, and therefore foraminiferal …

Changes in biological productivity along the northwest African margin over the past 20,000 years

LI Bradtmiller, D McGee, M Awalt, J Evers… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The intertropical convergence zone and the African monsoon system are highly sensitive to
climate forcing at orbital and millennial timescales. Both systems influence the strength and …

Shift in the species composition of the diatom community in the eutrophic Mauritanian coastal upwelling: Results from a multi-year sediment trap experiment (2003 …

OE Romero, G Fischer - Progress in oceanography, 2017 - Elsevier
A multiannual, continuous sediment trap experiment was conducted at the mooring site CB
eu (Cape Blanc eutrophic, ca. 20° N, ca. 18° W; trap depth= 1256–1296 m) in the high …

A 17-year time-series of diatom populations 'flux and composition in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling

OE Romero, S Ramondenc - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding seasonal and multiyear variability of primary producers' populations in the
Mauritanian coastal upwelling system along the northwestern African margin may help to …

Pelagic–benthic coupling within an upwelling system of the subtropical northeast Atlantic over the last 35 ka BP

CL McKay, HL Filipsson, OE Romero, JBW Stuut… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a high resolution, multiproxy study of the relationship between pelagic and
benthic environments of a coastal upwelling system in the subtropical NE Atlantic Ocean …

Oceanic circulation changes during early Pliocene marine ice-sheet instability in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

MA Hansen, S Passchier - Geo-Marine Letters, 2017 - Springer
Abstract In the Southern Ocean, unconstrained Westerlies allow for intense mixing between
deep waters and the atmosphere. How this system interacts with Antarctic ice sheets and the …

Single Tests of Thermocline Dwelling Foraminifera Globorotalia inflata as Recorder of Upper Water Column Structure off Mauritania (NW Africa): Methodology and …

HJH Johnstone, H Kuhnert, T Bickert… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermocline‐dwelling foraminifera calcify over a depth range of several hundred meters;
analysis of individual shells therefore allows insight to the hydrography of the upper water …