Organic geochemical investigation of sediments in the Japan Sea: Tracking paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic changes since the mid-Miocene

• Main Author: Wittkopp, Frederike
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.881046; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.881046

The mid- to late Miocene marks one of the last warm periods of the Neogene, before the descent in to the ice house climate of the late Pliocene and Pleistocene. The mid- to late Miocene climate was long overlooked, but receives increasingly more interest. This study used organic geochemical biomarke...