Eocene Cooling Linked to Early Flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

• Main Authors: Bijl, Peter K., Bendle, James, Bohaty, Steven M, Pross, Jörg, Schouten, Stefan, Tauxe, Lisa, Stickley, Catherine E., McKay, Robert, Röhl, Ursula, Olney, M. P., Sluijs, Appy, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Montclair State University Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: climate cooling; dinoflagellate cysts; organic palaeothermometry; paleoceanography; Geology; Paleontology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/47; http://www.pnas.org/content/110/24/9645

The warmest global temperatures of the past 85 million years occurred during a prolonged greenhouse episode known as the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (52–50 Ma). The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum terminated with a long-term cooling trend that culminated in continental-scale glaciation of Antarctica...