Caribbean Constraints on Circulation Between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Over the Past 40 Million Years

• Main Authors: Draxler, Andre W, Burke, Kevin C, Cunningham, Andrew D, Hine, Albert C, Rosencrantz, Eric, Duncan, David S, Hallock, Pamela, Robinson, Edward
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 1998
• Subjects: Kennett; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112450.003.0008; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52433462/isbn-9780195112450-book-part-8.pdf

Abstract Openings and closings of those narrow passageways between neighboring oceans which are called straits by geographers and gateways by paleoceanographers have had a powerful influence on oceanic circulation and, therefore, on climate change over the past approximate 50 million years (see, e.g...