(Table 1) Sample locations, Hf and Nd isotopic compositions and concentrations of Atlantic seawater samples with hydrographic details

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The first full water column hafnium isotopic compositions of Atlantic seawater have been obtained at seven locations from the Labrador Sea to the Drake Passage. Despite subpicomolar concentrations in seawater, a precision of the Hf isotopic measurements of <0.7 epsilon-Hf units was achieved. An overall epsilon-Hf range between -3.1 in the Labrador Sea and +4.4 in Antarctic bottom water was determined, the distribution of which broadly reflects continental weathering inputs. Within particular water column profiles, significant differences of up to 4 epsilon-Hf units occur. Combined with Nd isotope data of the same samples, it is evident that the Hf isotopic composition of seawater is too radiogenic for a given Nd isotopic composition and that the largest difference between expected and measured Hf isotopic compositions in seawater occurs near the oldest continental crust in the Labrador Sea. This corroborates the previous proposition, which was mainly based on ferromanganese crust data, that the Hf isotopic composition of seawater is controlled by incongruent weathering of continental crust and possibly, to some extent, by hydrothermal contributions. Hafnium concentrations in the ocean do not increase along the deep ocean conveyer indicating an oceanic residence time of only a few hundred years, which is significantly shorter than previously assumed. The Hf isotopic composition of past seawater can therefore serve as a proxy for short distance, basin scale mixing processes and the regime and intensity of nearby continental weathering processes.

Supplement to: Rickli, Jörg Dominik; Frank, Martin; Halliday, Alex N (2009): The hafnium-neodymium isotopic composition of Atlantic seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 280(1-4), 118-127

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.715003
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.026
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Creator Rickli, Jörg Dominik ORCID logo; Frank, Martin ORCID logo; Halliday, Alex N
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2009
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-63.303W, -56.933S, 8.281E, 54.246N); North Atlantic Ocean; Bay of Biscay; Canarias Sea; South Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2005-07-23T20:11:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2006-02-04T22:31:00Z