Transient Deep Ocean Cooling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

• Published in: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
• Main Authors: Taylor, Victoria Emma, Wilson, P.A., Bohaty, S.M., Meckler, Anna Nele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Pivot; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3108964; https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004650

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...