Changes in Pacific Ocean circulation following the Miocene onset of permanent Antarctic ice cover

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 365, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-50

  Holbourn, Ann ^a   Kuhnt, Wolfgang ^a   Frank, Martin ^b   Haley, Brian A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic stable isotopes; Middle Miocene; Nd isotopes; Pacific Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION CHANGES; COLDER CLIMATE; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER MASS; DEEP WATER SITE; ELEMENTAL DATA; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL TRENDS; ICE COVER; ICE EXPANSIONS; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; ND ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRODUCTION OF; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CARBON; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN HABITATS; VENTILATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BENTHOS; CARBON CYCLE; ICE COVER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIOCENE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OVERTURN; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER MASS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84873701683     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.020     Document Type: Article

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