Cover Image Upwelling Systems: Evolution since the Early Miocene

Upwelling Systems: Evolution since the Early Miocene

Product code: SP064

Print publication date: 10/09/1992

Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth and Solar System History, Quaternary geology

Binding: Hardback

ISBN: 9780903317788

Author/Edited by: Edited by C P Summerhayes, W L Prell and K C Emeis

Weight: 1.18kg

Number of pages: 522

Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/64/1

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Special Publication 64

Where winds blow persistently alongshore, surface waters are forced offshore and replaced by highly productive, nutrient-rich water upwelling from below. Because of this high productivity, bottom sediments beneath upwelling systems are enriched in organic matter and microfossils of planktonic organisms, the abundance of which is a signal of upwelling intensity. Changes in climate affect the intensity of upwelling and are recorded in the sediments by strong changes in indicators of upwelling activity. Thus studies of the history of upwelling from sedimentary information can give us a clearer view of local and global changes in climate through time than we might see in other areas of the ocean where the variations in oceanography induced by climate change are more subtle.
The authors focus on results from deep ocean drilling expeditions, particularly those off NW and SW Africa, Peru and Saudi Arabia. These have allowed more advanced models to be developed of the temporal and spatial palaeoenvironmental patterns associated with upwelling systems since the Early Miocene.
The editors hope that this book will help to identify and explain the causes and characteristics of persistent upwelling systems, how they respond to climatic forcing and the global teleconnection between them; and make this information accessible to a wide community.
Upwelling Systems will appeal to marine geologists and geochemists, palaeoceanographers, palaeoclimatologists and petroleum geologists.



 

 

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SUMMERHAYES, C.P., PRELL, W.L. & EMEIS, K.C. Evolution of upwelling systems since the Early Miocene • SMITH, R., L. Coastal upwelling in the modern ocean • SHIMMIELD, G.B. Can sediment geochemistry record changes in coastal upwelling palaeo-productivity? Evidence from northwest Africa and the Arabian Sea • THIEDE, J & JUNGER, B Faunal and floral indicators of coastal upwelling (NW African and Peruvian Continental Margins) • THUNELL, R & SAUTTER, L.R. Planktonic foraminiferal faunal and stable isotopic indices of upwelling: a sediment trap study in the San Pedro Basin, Southern Californic Bight • CURRY, W.B., OSTERMANN, D.R., GUPTHA, M.V.S. & ITTEKKOT, V. Foraminiferal production and monsoonal upwelling in the Arabian Sea: evidence from sediment traps • STEENS, T.N.F., GANSSEN, G & KROON, D. Oxygen and carbon isotopes in planktonic foraminifera as indicators of upwelling intensity and upwelling-induced high productivity in sediments from the northwestern Arabian Sea • ANDERSON, D.M., BROCK, J.C & PRELL, W.L. Physical upwelling processes, upper ocean environment and the sediment record of the southwest monsoon • APLIN, A.C., BISHOP. A.N. CLAYTON, CJ., KEARSLEY, A.T., MOSSMAN, J.R., PATIENCE, R.L., REESE, A.W.G. & ROWLAND S.J.A lamina-scale geochemical and sedimentological study of sediments from the Peru Margin (Site 680, ODP Leg 112) • HERMELIN, J.O.R. Variations in the benethic foraminiferal fauna of the Arabian Sea: a response to changes in upwelling intensity? • ITTEKKOT, V., HAKKE. B., BARTSCH, M., NAIR, R.R. & RAMASWAMY, V, Organic carbon removal in the sea: the continental connection • WELLING, L.A., PISIAS, N.G. & ROELOFS, A.K. Radiolarian microfauna in the northern California Current System: indicators of multiple processes controlling productivity • ORITIZ, J.D & MIX, A.C. The spatial distibution and seasonal succession of planktonic foraminifera in the California Current off Oregon, September 19878 – September 1988 • POWELL, A.J., LEWIS, J & DODGE, J.D. The palynological expressions of post-Palaeogene upwelling: a review • TEN HAVEN, H.L., EGLINTON, G., FARRIMOND, P., KOHNEN, M.E.L., POYNTER, J.G., RULLKOTTER, J & WELTE, D.H. Variations in the content and compositon of organic matter in sediments underlying active upwelling regimes: a study from ODP Legs 108, 112 and 117 • MORSE, J.W & EMEIS, K.C. Carbon/sulphur/iron relationships in upwelling sediments • REPETA, D.J., MCCAFREY, M.A. & FARRINGTON, J.W. Organic geochemistry as a tool to study upwelling systems: recent results from the Peru and Namibian shelves • VON BREYMANN, M.T., EMEIS K.C & SUESS, E. Water depth and diagentic constraints on the use of barium as a palaeoproductivity indicator • SCHNEIDER. R., DAHMKE, A., KOLLING, A., MULLER, P., SCHULZ. H.D & WEFER, G. Strong deglacial minimum in the δ13C record from planktonic foraminifera in the Benguela upwelling region: palaeoceanographic signal or early diagenetic imprint? • MURRAY, D.W. & PRELL, W.L. Late Pliocene and Pleistocene climatic oscillations and monsoon upwelling recorded in sediments from the Owen Ridge, northwestern Arabian Sea • MEYERS, P.A. Organic matter variations in sediments from DSDP site 362 and 532: evidence of upwelling changes in the Benguela Current upwelling system • DIESTER-HAASS, L., MEYERS, P.A. & ROTHE, P. The Benguela Current and associated upwelling on the southwest African Margin: A synthesis of the Neogene-Quaternary sedimentary record at DSDP sites 362 and 532 • PUJOS, A. Calcareous nannofossils of Plio-Pleistocene sediments from the northwestern margin of tropical Africa • Krissek, L.A & CLEMENS, S.C. Evidence for aridity-driven dust flux to the northwest Arabian Sea and for decoupling of the dust and upwelling system • CAULET, J.P., VENEC-PEYRE. M.T., VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI, C & NIGRINI, C. Variation of South Somalian opwelling during the last 160 ka: radiolarian and foraminifera records in core MD 85674 • SCHRADER, H. Peruvian coastal primary palaeo-productivity during the last 2000 000 years • SARNTHEIN, M. PFLAUMANN, U., ROSS, R., TIEDEMANN, R & WINN, K. Transfer functions to reconstruct ocean palaeoproductivity: a comparison • WHITE, L.D., GARRISON, R.E. & BARRON, J.A. Miocene intensification of upwelling along the California margin as recorded in siliceous facies of the Monterey Formation and offshore DSDP sites • IBARAKI, M. Planktonic foraminifera of the coastal upwelling area off Peru since the Pleistocene • HEINZE, P.M. & WEFER, G. The history of coastal upwelling off Peru (11˚S, ODP Leg 112, Site 680B) over the past 650 000 years • HAY, W..W. & BROCK, J.C. Temporal variation in intensity of upwelling off southwest Africa • ABRANTES, F. Palaeoproductivity oscillations during the last 130 ka along the Portuguese and NW African margins • Index