Letter. Late cretaceous seasonal ocean variability from the arctic

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Davies, Andrew, Kemp, Alan E.S., Pike, Jennifer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Alpha Ridge; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific; alpha ridge; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/148555/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/148555/1/Davies_et_al_Nature_09.pdf

The modern Arctic Ocean is regarded as barometer of global change and amplifier of global warming1 and therefore records of past Arctic change are of a premium for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Little is known of the state of the Arctic Ocean in the greenhouse period of the late Cretaceous, yet reco...