Reorganization of Southern Ocean Plankton Ecosystem at the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation

Southern Change Antarctica has been mostly covered by ice since the inception of large-scale continental glaciation during the Oligocene, which profoundly altered the isotopic and mineralogical records of the sediments surrounding the continent. Houben et al. (p. 341 ) found records of the correspon...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Houben, Alexander J. P., Bijl, Peter K., Pross, Jörg, Bohaty, Steven M., Passchier, Sandra, Stickley, Catherine E., Röhl, Ursula, Sugisaki, Saiko, Tauxe, Lisa, van de Flierdt, Tina, Olney, Matthew, Sangiorgi, Francesca, Sluijs, Appy, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2013
Subjects:
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1223646
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1223646
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Summary:Southern Change Antarctica has been mostly covered by ice since the inception of large-scale continental glaciation during the Oligocene, which profoundly altered the isotopic and mineralogical records of the sediments surrounding the continent. Houben et al. (p. 341 ) found records of the corresponding living systems in the fossil marine dinoflagellate cysts, which revealed that a microplankton ecosystem, similar to the one that exists today, appeared simultaneously with the first major Antarctic glaciation approximately 34 million years ago.

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