Onset of North Atlantic deep water production coincident with inception of the Cenozoic global cooling trend

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-258

  Hohbein, Michael W ^a   Sexton, Philip F ^a,b   Cartwright, Joseph A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CENOZOIC; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CONTOURITE DRIFTS; DEEP WATER; DEEP-WATER FLOW; DRIFT DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL COOLING; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SEDIMENT DRIFT; SEISMIC DATAS; STRONG LINK;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DEEP WATER; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84858127906     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32461.1     Document Type: Article

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