The origin of the Agulhas Plateau at the African-Southern Ocean gateway: Planned research on igneous rocks from Exp. 392

• Main Authors: Geldmacher, Joerg, Davidson, Peter C, Liu, Jia, Ichiyama, Yuji, Hoernle, Kaj, Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Bohaty, Steven M, Childress, Laurel B
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Indian; Maud Rise; Georgia Rise; Northeast Georgia Rise; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57041/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.4814dfbc-ed94-491e-a318-d371a980f1d3

The opening of the Southern Ocean gateways has been debated as a key element in the emergence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), crucial for the onset of global Cenozoic cooling (e.g., Sijp et al., 2014, Glob. Planet. Change 119; Voigt et al., 2013, EPSL 369/370). South of Africa, the openi...