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Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2005

Neodymium isotope evolution of NW Tethyan upper ocean waters throughout the Cretaceous

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Neodymium isotope compositions of twenty-four fish teeth, nineteen from the NW Tethys and five from different locations within the Tethys, are interpreted to reflect the evolution of Tethyan upper ocean water composition during the Cretaceous and used to track changes in erosional inputs to the NW Tethys and in oceanic circulation throughout the Cretaceous. The rather high ∑Nd (up to -7.6) of the NW Tethyan upper ocean waters recorded from the Late Berriasian to the Early Aptian and the absence of negative excursions during this interval support the presence of a permanent westward flowing Tethys Circumglobal Current (TCC). This implies that temperature variations during this time period, inferred from the oxygen isotope analysis of fish tooth enamel, were not driven by changes in surface oceanic currents, but rather by global climatic changes. The results presented here represent a significant advance over previously published Cretaceous seawater Nd isotope records. Our newly acquired data now allow the identification of two stages of low eNd values in the NW Tethys, during the Early Albian–Middle Albian interval (down to -10) and the Santonian–Early Campanian (down to -11.4), which alternate with two stages of higher ∑Nd values (up to -9) during the Late Albian–Turonian interval and the Maastrichtian. Used in conjunction with the oxygen isotope record, the fluctuations of ∑Nd values can be related to major climatic, oceanographic, and tectonic events that appeared in the western Tethyan domain.

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Géochimie

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hal-00185096 , version 1 (05-11-2007)

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Emmanuelle Pucéat, Christophe Lécuyer, Laurie Reisberg. Neodymium isotope evolution of NW Tethyan upper ocean waters throughout the Cretaceous. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005, 236, pp.705-720. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2005.03.015⟩. ⟨hal-00185096⟩
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