"Aplicação de marcadores orgânicos moleculares em estudos oceanográficos e paleoceanográficos: estudo de caso na Margem Continental Superior do Sudeste do Brasil" / Molecular Organic Markers Application in Oceanographic and Paleoceanographic Studies: Case study at the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Margin
AUTOR(ES)
Rafael André Lourenço
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
Climatic changes produce environmental signatures with which it is possible to reconstruct past environmental conditions. In the ocean, the fate of most of the organic matter is the marine sediment. Sediment core analyses reveal a unique reservoir of biological, chemical and geological information about past processes and how they responded to the environmental changes. In the present work, marine surface sediments from the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Margin were analyzed to verify the efficiency of organic geochemical markers in this area. Sediment core from the Southeastern Brazilian upper slope were also analyzed to carry out a paleoceanographic reconstruction. The core covers a time period of 35,000 years, where important climatic changes occurred, such as the Heinrich events 3, 2 and 1, the LGM, and the Younger Dryas events. Surface sediment results for geochemical markers were comparable with other works developed in the area, efficiently describing the processes that occur there. The alkenone based SST was also comparable with observations from multinational programs, being valid for this area. The core analyses showed correlations between SST and sea level variations with changes in terrestrial organic matter flow to the ocean over the last 35,000 years, allowed the identification of previously mentioned climatic events and the verification of the influence of these events on the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Shelf. Results showed that the SST varied up to 4.5°C between the LGM and the Holocene indicating that at this region a thermal antiphasing between southern and northern Atlantic Ocean SST during the last 35,000 years did not occur.
ASSUNTO(S)
southeastern brazilian continental margin. marcadores orgânicos moleculares paleoceanography paleoceanografia margem continental superior so sudeste do brasil molecular organic markers
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