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

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: N. Thompson, U. Salzmann, A. López-Quirós, P. K. Bijl, F. S. Hoem, J. Etourneau, M.-A. Sicre, S. Roignant, E. Hocking, M. Amoo, C. Escutia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Environmental pollution; TD172-193.5; Environmental protection; TD169-171.8; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; Weddell; Powell Basin; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-209-2022; https://doaj.org/article/99a94e1012d844bb8aa45480e2d15b06

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 b...