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Boyle 1983
Boyle, E.A. (1983). Chemical accumulation variations under the Peru Current during the past 130,000 years. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JC080i012p07667. issn: 0148-0227.

The titanium to aluminum ratio in core V19-29 is correlated with aluminosilicate accumulation rates. This correlation may be due to Pleistocene eolian transport fluctuations which alter the mean grain size of sedimented eolian material. The relation between aluminum accumulation rate and Ti/Al, established from accumulation rates integrated over 11,000-50,000 year intervals, can be inverted to compute a high-resolution record of aluminosilicate and calcium carbonate accumulation rates over the past 130,000 years. Carbonate accumulation rates are closely related to the oxygen isotope record in the core, with a phase lag and damping constant that is compatible with the response time (shown to be only 6000 years) of calcium carbonate in the ocean. Carbonate sedimentation at this site responds to several processes independently correlated with climatic change. The relative importance of these processes for carbonate sedimentation at this site can be constrained by the record in this core and other lines of evidence: 15% of the increased carbonate deposition at this site during glacial periods may be due to diminished NADW (North Atlantic deep water) formation: 10% is due to carbonate productivity decreases in the North Atlantic: 25% may be due to a diminished shallow-sea carbonate sink: and the residual 50% must be due to a local productivity increase. These assignments are consistent with obsevations on carbonate paleoceanography in the North Atlantic. Aluminosilicate accumulation rate variations correlate with the record of eolian quartz deposition near northwest Africa and, in a general way, with the climatic record. But in detail the record differs substantially from the oxygen isotope record and may provide independent evidence on the nature of climate dynamics.

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