Onset of North Atlantic Deep Water production coincident with inception of the Cenozoic global cooling trend : comment

Hohbein et al. (2012) propose an early Mid-Eocene onset of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) production by interpreting a mounded deposit at the south-west end of the Faroe-Shetland Basin (FSB) as a contourite drift, which they term the ‘Judd Falls Drift (JFD)’. We argue that this deposit is not a co...

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Published in:Geology
Main Authors: Stoker, Martyn, Leslie, Alick, Smith, Kevin, Olavsdottir, Jana, Johnson, Howard, Laberg, Jan Sverre
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of America 2013
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Arctic
Judd
NADW
North Atlantic Deep Water
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503064/
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503064/1/Stoker_Geology_Forum_Comment.pdf
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/41/9/e291.full
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Summary:Hohbein et al. (2012) propose an early Mid-Eocene onset of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) production by interpreting a mounded deposit at the south-west end of the Faroe-Shetland Basin (FSB) as a contourite drift, which they term the ‘Judd Falls Drift (JFD)’. We argue that this deposit is not a contourite drift; we also question how their model of early NADW production fits with current understanding of the development of the Faroe-Shetland Basin and the wider Arctic–NE Atlantic region, neither of which was convincingly discussed by these authors.

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