• Main Authors: Ellen Thomas B, Anthony T. S. Ramsay C
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.1215; http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/Smartetal07.pdf

increased, but also became more pulsed or seasonal, peaking at 9–8 Ma, while deep and intermediate waters may have become more ventilated. The first phase of faunal change (14–13 Ma) was coeval with the global increase in benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope The Miocene was a time of major changes in the established (e.g., Ramstein et al., 1997). The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), and hence steep thermal gradients between high and low latitudes, probably Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoeocean–atmosphere system. By early Miocene timesvalues, worldwide turnover in benthic foraminiferal faunas, and possibly increased production of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) and Northern Component Water (NCW). The overall faunal turnover may reflect the composite faunal response to increased food input resulting from heightened productivity and increased bottom water ventilation associated with a combination of monsoonal intensification, global cooling and changes in ocean circulation, but there is no unequivocal evidence for the presence of Tethyan