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

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Hohbein, Michael W., Sexton, Philip F., Cartwright, Joseph A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Greenland; Judd; Greenland Sea; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/31116/; https://doi.org/10.1130/G32461.1

Here we show that the onset of deep water overflow from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea into the North Atlantic, interpreted to represent the onset of a modern-style North Atlantic Deep Water mass, commenced close to the early to middle Eocene boundary. This finding is based on the identification of a l...