Stable isotope and Mg/Ca ratios of Paleogene benthic foraminifera in the western North Atlantic ...

• Main Authors: Katz, Miriam E, Cramer, Benjamin S, Toggweiler, J Robbie, Esmay, Gar, Liu, Chengji, Miller, Kenneth G, Rosenthal, Yair, Wade, Bridget S, Wright, James D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Composite Core; Drilling/drill rig; Leg171B; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Antarc*; Antarctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.771562; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.771562

Global cooling and the development of continental-scale Antarctic glaciation occurred in the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~38 to 28 million years ago), accompanied by deep-ocean reorganization attributed to gradual Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) development. Our benthic foraminiferal...