Contents and distribution of GDGTs in surface sediments of Ross Sea, Antarctic and their environmental significances

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1001-909X.2019.01.005

Abstract

Abstract: The contents and distribution of Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers (GDGTs) in 15 surface sediment samples from Ross Sea, Antarctica were analyzed. Besides, the source of GDGTs and environmental implications of TEX₈₆ were disscussed. The results show that the content of GDGTs is from 93.67 to 2 663.37 ng/g with the isoprenoid GDGTs accounts for 90.33%98.56%, which are much more higher than those of branched GDGTs. Isoprenoid GDGTs have significant positive correlation with branched GDGTs (R²=0.88,p<0.01). The result indicates that isoprenoid GDGTs come from marine Archaea while branched GDGTs are mainly from bacteria in sea waters and sediments. Correlation analysis with the WOA database shows that the TEX^L₈₆ index reconstructed temperatures are of significant positive correlation with the sea surface temperatures in summer in the study area. Thus,the TEX^L₈₆ could be used as a potential index for paleo-SST reconstruction in the Ross Sea.

Key words: Ross Sea, sediment, GDGTs, TEX₈₆

CLC Number:

P736.4⁺1

CHEN Wen-shen, YU Pei-song, HAN Xi-bin, ZHAO Jun, PAN Jian-ming. Contents and distribution of GDGTs in surface sediments of Ross Sea, Antarctic and their environmental significances[J]. Journal of Marine Sciences, 2019, 37(1): 30-39.

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