The impact of Early Cretaceous gateway evolution on ocean circulation and organic carbon burial in the emerging South Atlantic and Southern Ocean basins

• Main Authors: Dummann, W., Steinig, S., Hofmann, P., Floegel, S., Osborne, A. H., Frank, M., Herrle, J. O., Bretschneider, L., Sheward, R. M., Wagner, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER 2020
• Subjects: ddc:no; Falkland Plateau; Georgia Basin; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/34881/

Organic carbon burial is an important driver of carbon cycle and climate dynamics on geological and shorter time scales. Ocean basins emerging during the Early Cretaceous break-up of Gondwana were primary sites of organic carbon burial, implying that their tectonic and oceanographic evolution may ha...