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Ba distribution in surface Southern Ocean sediments and export production estimates
Fagel, Nathalie; Dehairs, Frank; André, Luc et al.
2002In Paleoceanography, 17 (2, MAR-JUN)
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Keywords :
excess Ba; sediment; Southern Ocean; export production; Atlantic Ocean; sedimentary geochemistry
Abstract :
[en] [1] We present excess Ba (Baxs) data (i.e., total Ba corrected for lithogenic Ba) for surface sediments from a north-south transect between the Polar Front Zone and the northern Weddell Gyre in the Atlantic sector and between the Polar Front Zone and the Antarctic continent in the Indian sector. Focus is on two different processes that affect excess Ba accumulation in the sediments: sediment redistribution and excess Ba dissolution. The effect of these processes needs to be corrected for in order to convert accumulation rate into vertical rain rate, the flux component that can be linked to export production. In the Southern Ocean a major process affecting Ba accumulation rate is sediment focusing, which is corrected for using excess Th-230. This correction, however, may not always be straightforward because of boundary scavenging effects. A further major process affecting excess Ba accumulation is barite dissolution during exposure at the sediment-water column interface. Export production estimates derived from excess Th-230 and barite dissolution corrected Baxs accumulation rates (i.e., excess Ba vertical rain rates) are of the same magnitude but generally larger than export production estimates based on water column proxies (Th-234-deficit in the upper water column; particulate excess Ba enrichment in the mesopelagic water column). We believe export production values based on excess Ba vertical rain rate might be overestimated due to inaccurate assessment of the Baxs preservation rate. Barite dissolution has, in general, been taken into account by relating it to exposure time before burial depending on the rate of sediment accumulation. However, the observed decrease of excess Ba content with increasing water column depth (or increasing hydrostatic pressure) illustrates the dependence of barite preservation on degree of saturation in the deep water column in accordance with available thermodynamic data. Therefore correction for barite dissolution would not be appropriate by considering only exposure time of the barite to some uniformly undersaturated deep water but requires also that regional differences in degree of undersatuation be taken into account.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Fagel, Nathalie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Géochim. sédiment. - Sédiment. mar. & continent. du quatern.
Dehairs, Frank
André, Luc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Géochim. sédiment. - Sédiment. mar. & continent. du quatern.
Bareille, Gilles
Monnin, Cnristophe
Language :
English
Title :
Ba distribution in surface Southern Ocean sediments and export production estimates
Publication date :
2002
Journal title :
Paleoceanography
ISSN :
0883-8305
eISSN :
1944-9186
Publisher :
Amer Geophysical Union, Washington, United States
Volume :
17
Issue :
2, MAR-JUN
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
OMEX
Funders :
EU - European Commission
Commentary :
An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright (2002) American Geophysical Union.
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