Rates of benthic mixing in deep-sea sediment as determined by radioactive tracers |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Agricultural Meteorology, College of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;2. Department of Agricultural Resource and Environment, College of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China |
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| Abstract: | A series of closely spaced radiocarbon measurements on a carbonate-rich box core from the western equatorial Pacific show a mixed layer at least 7 cm thick, with 14C ages between 4000 and 5000 years, and an orderly progression of ages below this layer, indicating an average sedimentation rate of about 2 cm/103 yr. The profile can be simulated using a numerical extension of the mixing model of Guinasso and Schink (1975) and a numerical exponential mixing model. The best-fit iteration indicates an apparent mixing coefficient of K = 120 cm2/103 yr which also fits well the excess 210Pb distribution. The best-fit also indicates that a small amount of sediment was lost on the top, and that there was a reduction in sedimentation rate within the early Holocene. |
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