Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene Transition

• Main Authors: Thompson, Nick, Salzmann, Ulrich, López-Quirós, Adrián, Bijl, Peter K., Hoem, Frida S., Etourneau, Johan, Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine, Roignant, Sabine, Hocking, Emma, Amoo, Michael, Escutia, Carlota
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Drake Passage; Powell Basin; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2021-84; https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2021-84/

The role and climatic impact of the opening of the Drake Passage and how it affected both marine and terrestrial environments across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT ~ 34 Ma) period remains poorly understood. Here we present new terrestrial palynomorph data compared with recently compiled lipid...