Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes
The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that the Nordic Seas cooled during the earliest Pliocene, before global cooling. However, a lack of...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4639897 2023-05-15T15:04:38+02:00 Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes De Schepper, Stijn Schreck, Michael Beck, Kristina Marie Matthiessen, Jens Fahl, Kirsten Mangerud, Gunn 2015-10-28 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4639897/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26507275 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9659 en eng Nature Pub. Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4639897/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26507275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9659 Copyright © 2015, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article Text 2015 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9659 2015-12-13T01:13:32Z The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that the Nordic Seas cooled during the earliest Pliocene, before global cooling. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the precise timing of Nordic Seas cooling has limited our understanding of the governing mechanisms. Here, using marine palynology, we show that cooling in the Nordic Seas was coincident with the first trans-Arctic migration of cool-water Pacific mollusks around 4.5 million years ago, and followed by the development of a modern-like Nordic Seas surface circulation. Nordic Seas cooling precedes global cooling by 500,000 years; as such, we propose that reconfiguration of the Bering Strait and Central American Seaway triggered the development of a modern circulation in the Nordic Seas, which is essential for North Atlantic Deep Water formation and a precursor for more widespread Greenland glaciation in the late Pliocene. Text Arctic Bering Strait Greenland Nordic Seas North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Bering Strait Greenland Pacific Nature Communications 6 1 |
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The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that the Nordic Seas cooled during the earliest Pliocene, before global cooling. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the precise timing of Nordic Seas cooling has limited our understanding of the governing mechanisms. Here, using marine palynology, we show that cooling in the Nordic Seas was coincident with the first trans-Arctic migration of cool-water Pacific mollusks around 4.5 million years ago, and followed by the development of a modern-like Nordic Seas surface circulation. Nordic Seas cooling precedes global cooling by 500,000 years; as such, we propose that reconfiguration of the Bering Strait and Central American Seaway triggered the development of a modern circulation in the Nordic Seas, which is essential for North Atlantic Deep Water formation and a precursor for more widespread Greenland glaciation in the late Pliocene. |
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