Transient deep ocean cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

• Published in: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
• Main Authors: Taylor, V.E., Wilson, Paul, Bohaty, S.M., Meckler, A.N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Pivot; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/482503/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/482503/1/Paleoceanog_and_Paleoclimatol_2023_Taylor_Transient_Deep_Ocean_Cooling_in_the_Eastern_Equatorial_Pacific_Ocean_at_the.pdf

At the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 million years ago, Earth abruptly transitioned to a climate state sufficiently cool for Antarctica to sustain large ice sheets for the first time in tens to hundreds of millions of years. Oxygen isotope records from deep-sea benthic foramini...