Leg 189 Summary

• Main Authors: Shipboard Scientific Party, Shevenell, Amelia E.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2001
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; Drake Passage; Transantarctic Mountains; Pacific; Indian; Cape Roberts; Adare; Cape Adare; South Tasman Rise; Tasman Fracture Zone; Balleny Fracture Zone; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/660; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1673&context=msc_facpub

The Cenozoic Era is unusual in its development of major ice sheets. Progressive high-latitude cooling during the Cenozoic eventually formed major ice sheets, initially on Antarctica and later in the Northern Hemisphere. In the early 1970s, a hypothesis was proposed that climatic cooling and an Antar...