Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic
Sediments cored along the southwestern Iberian margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 339 provide constraints on Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) circulation patterns from the Pliocene epoch to the present day. After the Strait of Gibraltar opened (5.33 million years ago), a lim...
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ftcaltechauth:oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:46883 2023-05-15T17:28:30+02:00 Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic Hernández-Molina, F. Javier Miller, Madeline 2014-06-13 https://authors.library.caltech.edu/46883/ https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140707-122712318 unknown American Association for the Advancement of Science Hernández-Molina, F. Javier and Miller, Madeline (2014) Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic. Science, 344 (6189). pp. 1244-1250. ISSN 0036-8075. doi:10.1126/science.1251306. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140707-122712318 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140707-122712318> Article PeerReviewed 2014 ftcaltechauth https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251306 2021-11-11T18:58:28Z Sediments cored along the southwestern Iberian margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 339 provide constraints on Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) circulation patterns from the Pliocene epoch to the present day. After the Strait of Gibraltar opened (5.33 million years ago), a limited volume of MOW entered the Atlantic. Depositional hiatuses indicate erosion by bottom currents related to higher volumes of MOW circulating into the North Atlantic, beginning in the late Pliocene. The hiatuses coincide with regional tectonic events and changes in global thermohaline circulation (THC). This suggests that MOW influenced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), THC, and climatic shifts by contributing a component of warm, saline water to northern latitudes while in turn being influenced by plate tectonics. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology) Science 344 6189 1244 1250 |
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Sediments cored along the southwestern Iberian margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 339 provide constraints on Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) circulation patterns from the Pliocene epoch to the present day. After the Strait of Gibraltar opened (5.33 million years ago), a limited volume of MOW entered the Atlantic. Depositional hiatuses indicate erosion by bottom currents related to higher volumes of MOW circulating into the North Atlantic, beginning in the late Pliocene. The hiatuses coincide with regional tectonic events and changes in global thermohaline circulation (THC). This suggests that MOW influenced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), THC, and climatic shifts by contributing a component of warm, saline water to northern latitudes while in turn being influenced by plate tectonics. |
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Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic |
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Hernández-Molina, F. Javier and Miller, Madeline (2014) Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic. Science, 344 (6189). pp. 1244-1250. ISSN 0036-8075. doi:10.1126/science.1251306. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140707-122712318 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140707-122712318> |
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