Eocene-Oligocene paleoenvironmental changes in the South Orkney Microcontinent (Antarctica) linked to the opening of Powell Basin

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: López-Quirós, Adrián, Escutia, Carlota, Etourneau, Johan, Rodríguez-Tovar, Francisco Javier, Roignant, Sabine, Lobo, F. J., Thompson, Nick, Bijl, Peter K., Bohoyo, Fernando, Salzmann, Ulrich, Evangelinos, Dimitris, Salabarnada, Ariadna, Hoem, Frida S., Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine
• Other Authors: European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, Universidad de Granada, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier BV 2021
• Subjects: Late Eocene-early Oligocene; Drake Passage; South Orkney Microcontinent; ODP 696; Paleoenvironment; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Powell Basin; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/259176; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103581; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006393; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011011; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837

The scarcity of paleo-records from the Antarctic Peninsular region of the Southern Ocean hinders our understanding of the timing of the opening of Drake Passage, specifically in the region of the South Orkney Microcontinent (SOM) and Powell Basin, between the Scotia and Antarctic plates. At Ocean Dr...