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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
卷 35, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020PA003935
关键词
paleoclimatology; paleotemperatures; Miocene
资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1635127]
- Geocenter Denmark
The Miocene epoch witnessed major changes in climate. The marine oxygen isotope record, our best single continuous representation of the time interval, contains large shifts indicating substantial changes in the glaciation of Antarctica and/or deep ocean temperatures, with the interval of the most depleted isotopic composition occurring between similar to 18 and 13.9 Ma (mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum [MCO]). We present here a record of alkenone unsaturation estimates from a borehole penetrating marine sediments spanning most of the Miocene at similar to 56 degrees N. Marine temperatures reconstructed for the Miocene are up to 20 degrees C warmer than present day. A maximum occurs at the time of the MCO. The record is strikingly similar to discontinuous alkenone results published from other North Atlantic sites. As in the southern hemisphere, ocean temperature gradients were extraordinarily low in the North Atlantic in comparison to today. Our findings suggest that the MCO was a global temperature maximum and link the partial deglaciation of the Antarctic and subsequent refrigeration to a global forcing process. However, the small magnitude of the ocean cooling from similar to 14 to 10 Ma suggests a highly nonlinear (threshold) relationship between East Antarctic ice volume and global temperature.
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