The equatorial Pacific record of Earth's climate and paleoceanography; site-survey support for IODP-626FULL2.

太平洋营养丰富的深层沃茨沿着沿着上升，为浮游生物的密集种群提供了基础。它们的骨骼在过去的5000万年里堆积起来，形成了一个600米厚的沉积物堆。我们的目标是在这些沉积物上钻一系列的孔，并将它们联合收割机结合起来，以提供它们在赤道沉积的连续记录。由于太平洋海水的上升流与风力有关，这些沉积物携带着地球气候的重要记录。该提案要求提供资金，以收集地球物理数据和岩心，以核实这些地点可以安全钻探，并找到合适的沉积物段进行取样。一名博士生将有机会分析地震数据，并建立一个整个中太平洋沉积物分层数据库。他/她将研究这些数据，以确定沉积物在山丘周围的变化以及流动的底层沃茨的影响。他/她将研究碳酸盐物质的溶解如何改变沉积物。还将分析在这里收集的沉积物样本，以寻找最近冰川-间冰期气候波动的信号。

Deep nutrient-rich waters of the Pacific Ocean rise up along the equator and provide the basis for dense populations of planktonic organisms. Their skeletons have built up over the past 50 million years to create a 600-m-thick mound of sediments. We aim to drill a series of holes through these deposits and combine them to provide a continuous record of their deposition at the equator. As the upwelling of the Pacific Ocean water is related to wind strength, these deposits carry an important record of Earth's climate. This proposal requests funding to collect geophysical data and cores to verify that these sites are safe to drill and to locate suitable sediment sections to sample. A PhD student will have the opportunity to analyse the seismic data and to develop a database of sediment layering throughout the entire central Pacific Ocean. He/she will study these data to work out how the deposits vary around hills and with effects of flowing bottom waters. He/she will study how dissolution of carbonate material has modified the sediments. The sediment samples collected here will also be analysed for signals of recent glacial-interglacial climate fluctuations.