Lund, David C. and Pavia, Frank J. and Seeley, Emily I. and McCart, Sarah E. and Rafter, Patrick A. and Farley, Kenneth A. and Asimow, Paul D. and Anderson, Robert F. (2019) Hydrothermal scavenging of ^(230)Th on the Southern East Pacific Rise during the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 510 . pp. 64-72. ISSN 0012-821X. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.037. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190123-072432500
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Abstract
Thorium-230 (^(230)Th) is a fundamental tool for estimating sediment fluxes in the open ocean. Because ^(230)Th is rapidly scavenged by particles falling through the water column, the flux of ^(230)Th to underlying sediments is typically equal to its water column production rate. However, recent surveys suggest hydrothermal plumes are unusually efficient scavengers of ^(230)Th. Here we show that hydrothermal scavenging on the Southern East Pacific Rise (SEPR) resulted in ^(230)Th fluxes several times higher than the water column production rate during the last deglaciation. Elevated fluxes likely require diffusive transport of dissolved ^(230)Th from the ridge flanks towards the ridge crest. Depending on the length-scale of ^(230)Th transport, the resulting deficits in ^(230)Th may yield overestimates of sediment flux to ridge flank sediments. We also show that Fe fluxes at 19°S on the SEPR lag those at 11°S and 6°S by several thousand years, inconsistent with a signal driven by changes in deep water pH and oxygen levels. Instead, variable hydrothermal activity is the simplest explanation of the observed signals in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic basins.
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Alternate Title: | Hydrothermal scavenging of 230Th on the Southern East Pacific Rise during the last deglaciation | ||||||||||||||
Additional Information: | © 2019 Elsevier B.V. Received 28 August 2018, Revised 23 December 2018, Accepted 28 December 2018, Available online 18 January 2019. DCL, EIS, and SM were supported by NSF award OCE-1558641 and the UCONN Research Excellence Program. We are grateful to David Cady at UCONN for assistance with ICP-MS analyses, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz at Georgia Tech for assistance with stable isotope analyses, and Martin Fleisher at LDEO for assistance with ^(230)Th and ^(231)Pa analyses. We are also indebted to the Oregon State University Core Repository for the curation of core OC73-3-20. The OSU Repository is supported by NSF award OCE-1558679. PDA was supported by NSF awards OCE-1558372 and EAR-1551433. FJP was supported by an NSF-GRFP(DGE-16-44869). All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. | ||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | 230-Thorium; hydrothermal scavenging; glacial–interglacial; East Pacific Rise; 231-Protactinium | ||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.037 | ||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | David C. Lund, Frank J. Pavia, Emily I. Seeley, Sarah E. McCart, Patrick A. Rafter, Kenneth A. Farley, Paul D. Asimow, Robert F. Anderson, Hydrothermal scavenging of 230Th on the Southern East Pacific Rise during the last deglaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 510, 2019, Pages 64-72, ISSN 0012-821X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.037. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X1930007X) | ||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||
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