Shackleton Fracture Zone: No barrier to early circumpolar ocean circulation
The opening of Southern Ocean gateways was critical to the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and may have led to Cenozoic global cooling and Antarctic glaciation. Drake Passage was probably the final barrier to deep circumpolar ocean currents, but the timing of opening is unclear, becau...
Published in: | Geology |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Geological Society of America
2004
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/18847 https://doi.org/10.1130/G20537.1 |