Feni Drift, Rockall Trough, Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Reference
Richter, T.O., Peeters, F.J.C. and van Weering, T.C.E. 2009. Late Holocene (0-2.4 ka BP) surface water temperature and salinity variability, Feni Drift, NE Atlantic Ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1941-1955.
Reference
Richter, T.O., Peeters, F.J.C. and van Weering, T.C.E. 2009. Late Holocene (0-2.4 ka BP) surface water temperature and salinity variability, Feni Drift, NE Atlantic Ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1941-1955.
Description
The authors obtained high-resolution (22-year average) planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and stable oxygen isotope (δ18O) data from a pair of sediment cores retrieved from the northeast Atlantic Ocean's Feni Drift, Rockall Trough region (55°39.02'N, 13°59.10'W and 55°39.10'N, 13°59.13'W) from which they derived late-Holocene (0-2.4 ka BP) sea surface temperatures (SSTs). This work revealed the MWP to have occurred between approximately AD 750 and 1160; and a plot of the results (shown below) reveals the peak temperature of the MWP to have been about 2.3°C greater than the peak temperature of the late 20th century.
Sea surface temperature history of the northeast Atlantic's Feni Drift region, adapted from Richter et al. (2009).