A circumpolar dust conveyor in the glacial Southern Ocean

Dust deposition brings iron that fuels ocean productivity, a connection impacting climate over geological time. Here the authors use sediment cores to show that in contrast to dynamics today, during the last glacial maximum westerly winds shuttled dust from Australia and South America around Antarct...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Torben Struve, Katharina Pahnke, Frank Lamy, Marc Wengler, Philipp Böning, Gisela Winckler
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18858-y
https://doaj.org/article/8e2257bb5c034137883580eb1fb94839
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Summary:Dust deposition brings iron that fuels ocean productivity, a connection impacting climate over geological time. Here the authors use sediment cores to show that in contrast to dynamics today, during the last glacial maximum westerly winds shuttled dust from Australia and South America around Antarctica and into the South Pacific.