Late Cenozoic history of the Polar North Atlantic: results from ocean drilling

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Thiede, Jörn, Winkler, Amelie, Wolf-Welling, Thomas, Eldholm, Olav, Myhre, Annik M., Baumann, Karl-Heinz, Henrich, Rüdiger, Stein, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 1998
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Greenland; Vöring Plateau; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47061/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47061/1/1-s2.0-S0277379197000760-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00076-0

DSDP/ODP drilling in the northern North Atlantic reveals that so far the onset of northern hemisphere cooling deduced from the occurrence of ice-rafted debris (IRD) in deep-sea sediments can be traced back to the middle Miocene. The Greenland ice sheet has probably the longest history on the norther...