Carbon-climate perturbations in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Southern Ocean: Clues from IODP 392 Agulhas Plateau
Lead Research Organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department Name: Sch of Energy, Geosci, Infrast & Society
Abstract
IODP Expedition 392 sets out to Aguhlas Plateau off South Africa to recover new scientific cores from the Cretaceous-Paleogene greenhouse and its transition to the more recent colder climate history. This history is rich in pulsed perturbations in temperature and carbon cycling, some of which are global and translated into black shale deposition, whereas others are more subtle and not associated with enhanced carbon burial. Documenting and understanding the pacing, amplitudes and causes of these perturbations and their boundary conditions at deep and shallow marine settings in the emerging, early Southern Ocean sets the wider boundaries for this research project.
This project will conduct initial organic geochemical research during the moratorium period of the expedition. Using shipboard screening material from the new cores recovered during the cruise, the project will focus on the transition from low carbon systems into perturbations, climax, and recovery, thereby documenting the phasing, rates and amplitudes in carbon burial, nutrient cycling and temperature development (initial focus on sea surface temperatures, SST). Prominent examples of interest are black shale from the late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) and major and minor hyperthermals recorded during the uppermost Cretaceous and Paleogene. The project covers the important post-cruise editorial and sampling meeting at the IODP repository facilities in College Station, USA. It is anticipated that this meeting will set the foundation for larger research proposals delivered by international research teams.
This project will conduct initial organic geochemical research during the moratorium period of the expedition. Using shipboard screening material from the new cores recovered during the cruise, the project will focus on the transition from low carbon systems into perturbations, climax, and recovery, thereby documenting the phasing, rates and amplitudes in carbon burial, nutrient cycling and temperature development (initial focus on sea surface temperatures, SST). Prominent examples of interest are black shale from the late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) and major and minor hyperthermals recorded during the uppermost Cretaceous and Paleogene. The project covers the important post-cruise editorial and sampling meeting at the IODP repository facilities in College Station, USA. It is anticipated that this meeting will set the foundation for larger research proposals delivered by international research teams.
People |
ORCID iD |
Thomas Wagner (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Uenzelmann-Neben G
(2022)
Expedition 392 Preliminary Report: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate
Description | Initial high resolution geochemical and isotopic records from the Transkei Basin, U1581, confirm globally recognised carbon-climate trends for the late Cretaceous Aghulas Plateau region combined with carbon cycling from local sediment sources. |
Exploitation Route | The new data set the foundation for further collaborative research, high impact publication and further research funding |
Sectors | Environment |
Description | Carbon isotope geochemistry |
Organisation | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Department | Institute of Biochemistry |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborative research to generate combined, high resolution climate records of the Cretaceous Southern Ocean |
Collaborator Contribution | Sharing samples, conducting inorganic carbon isotope analyses |
Impact | No outputs yet as new samples from IODP 392 expedition only recently received |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Molecular geochemistry of IODP 392 sediments |
Organisation | Indiana University Bloomington |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Share samples, conducted high resolution bill geochemical analyses |
Collaborator Contribution | Shared samples, conducted molecular geochemical and compound specific analyses |
Impact | No outcomes yet as analyses in progress |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Organic matter composition in IODP 392 cores |
Organisation | Utrecht University |
Department | Institute of Earth Sciences Utrecht |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborative research to generate combined, high resolution records on organic matter composition from the Cretaceous Southern Ocean |
Collaborator Contribution | Sharing samples, providing palynological analyses on shared sample set |
Impact | No outputs yet as new samples in preparation for analyses |
Start Year | 2022 |