Hauck, Judith; Gerdes, Dieter; Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter; Hoppema, Mario; Kuhn, Gerhard; Nehrke, Gernot; Völker, Christoph; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A (2012): Calcium carbonate content in surface sediments and benthic fauna on Antarctic shelves [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757933, Supplement to: Hauck, J et al. (2012): Distribution and mineralogy of carbonate sediments on Antarctic shelves. Journal of Marine Systems, 90(1), 77-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.09.005
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Abstract:
We analyzed 214 new core-top samples for their CaCO3 content from shelves all around Antarctica in order to understand their distribution and contribution to the marine carbon cycle. The distribution of sedimentary CaCO3 on the Antarctic shelves is connected to environmental parameters where we considered water depth, width of the shelf, sea-ice coverage and primary production. While CaCO3 contents of surface sediments are usually low, high(> 15%) CaCO3 contents occur at shallow water depths (150-200 m) on narrow shelves of the eastern Weddell Sea and at a depth range of 600-900 m on the broader and deeper shelves of the Amundsen, Bellingshausen and western Weddell Seas. Regions with high primary production, such as the Ross Sea and the western Antarctic Peninsula region, have generally low CaCO3 contents in the surface sediments.
The predominant mineral phase of CaCO3 on the Antarctic shelves is low-magnesium calcite. With respect to ocean acidification, our findings suggest that dissolution of carbonates in Antarctic shelf sediments may be an important negative feedback only after the onset of calcite undersaturation on the Antarctic shelves.
Macrozoobenthic CaCO3 standing stocks do not increase the CaCO3 budget significantly as they are two orders of magnitude lower than the budget of the sediments.
This first circumpolar compilation of Antarctic shelf carbonate data does not claim to be complete. Future studies are encouraged and needed to fill data gaps especially in the under-sampled southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean sectors of the Southern Ocean.
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Median Latitude: -68.511593 * Median Longitude: -49.467620 * South-bound Latitude: -78.267000 * West-bound Longitude: -170.133000 * North-bound Latitude: -53.395100 * East-bound Longitude: 11.750000
Date/Time Start: 1984-11-21T15:45:00 * Date/Time End: 2007-01-22T16:21:00
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PS06/120-1 * Latitude: -63.280000 * Longitude: -54.170000 * Date/Time: 1984-11-21T15:45:00 * Elevation: -200.0 m * Location: Weddell Sea * Campaign: ANT-III/2 (PS06) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG)
PS06/151-7 * Latitude: -61.150000 * Longitude: -55.000000 * Date/Time: 1984-11-25T22:05:00 * Elevation: -120.0 m * Location: Scotia Sea, southwest Atlantic * Campaign: ANT-III/2 (PS06) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG)
PS06/158-1 * Latitude: -62.510000 * Longitude: -56.000000 * Date/Time: 1984-11-26T22:00:00 * Elevation: -133.0 m * Location: Scotia Sea, southwest Atlantic * Campaign: ANT-III/2 (PS06) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Giant box corer (GKG)
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- Hauck, J; Gerdes, D; Hillenbrand, C-D et al. (2012): Figure 7: Carbonate contribution in macrozoobenthos from the west and east Antarctic Peninsula and western and eastern Weddell Sea regions. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757666
- Hauck, J; Gerdes, D; Hillenbrand, C-D et al. (2012): Calcium carbonate content in surface sediments on Antarctic shelves. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.757698