Late Oligocene initiation of the Antarctic circumpolar current: Evidence from the South Pacific

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 691-694

  Lyle, Mitchell ^a   Gibbs, Samantha ^b   Moore, Theodore C ^c   Rea, David K ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Cenozoic; Marine geology; Pacific Ocean; Paleoceanography; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; MARINE GEOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF WATER; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CENOZOIC; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; GLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCURRENT; WATER COLUMN;

AUSTRALASIA; DRAKE PASSAGE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMAN;

EID: 34548064964     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23806A.1     Document Type: Article

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