Eocene southern Atlantic Ocean dinoflagellate cysts: regional correlation and paleoenvironments

• Main Authors: Daners, G., Rodriguez Amenabar, Cecilia, Alperin, Marta Ines, Guerstein, Gladys Raquel
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palaeontological Society
• Subjects: DINOCYSTS; EOCENE; PATAGONIA; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Patagonia; Drake Passage; Uruguay; Magallanes; Rodriguez; Pablo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/221083

The Eocene was a time of regional tectonic events and climatological changes, related to the opening of the Drake Passage that separated South America from Antarctica. Knowledge of the timing of the Drake rifting can help us understand the new oceanographic regime and its consequences. In this sense...