Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice
International audience Earth's modern climate is defined by the presence of ice at both poles, but that ice is now disappearing. Therefore understanding the origin and causes of polar ice stability is more critical than ever. Here we provide novel geochemical data that constrain past dynamics o...
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ftunivbrest:oai:HAL:hal-02929073v1 2024-05-12T07:59:07+00:00 Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice Tripati, Aradhna Darby, Dennis Old Dominion University Norfolk (ODU) NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) NSF-ARC 1107942 Department of Energy through BES grant DE-FG02-13ER16402 NSF through CAREER awardNational Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-1325054 "Laboratoire d'Excellence" LabexMER ANR-10-LABX-19 French government under the program "Investissements d'Avenir"French National Research Agency (ANR) ANR-10-LABX-0019,LabexMER,LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean(2010) 2018 https://hal.science/hal-02929073 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03180-5 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-018-03180-5 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/29531221 hal-02929073 https://hal.science/hal-02929073 doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03180-5 PUBMED: 29531221 PUBMEDCENTRAL: PMC5847593 ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.science/hal-02929073 Nature Communications, 2018, 9, ⟨10.1038/s41467-018-03180-5⟩ [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftunivbrest https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03180-5 2024-04-17T23:53:48Z International audience Earth's modern climate is defined by the presence of ice at both poles, but that ice is now disappearing. Therefore understanding the origin and causes of polar ice stability is more critical than ever. Here we provide novel geochemical data that constrain past dynamics of glacial ice on Greenland and Arctic sea ice. Based on accurate source determinations of individual ice-rafted Fe-oxide grains, we find evidence for episodic glaciation of distinct source regions on Greenland as far-ranging as similar to 68 degrees N and similar to 80 degrees N synchronous with ice-rafting from circum-Arctic sources, beginning in the middle Eocene. Glacial intervals broadly coincide with reduced CO2, with a potential threshold for glacial ice stability near similar to 500 p.p.m.v. The middle Eocene represents the Cenozoic onset of a dynamic cryosphere, with ice in both hemispheres during transient glacials and substantial regional climate heterogeneity. A more stable cryosphere developed at the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and is now threatened by anthropogenic emissions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Sea ice Université de Bretagne Occidentale: HAL Arctic Greenland Nature Communications 9 1 |
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International audience Earth's modern climate is defined by the presence of ice at both poles, but that ice is now disappearing. Therefore understanding the origin and causes of polar ice stability is more critical than ever. Here we provide novel geochemical data that constrain past dynamics of glacial ice on Greenland and Arctic sea ice. Based on accurate source determinations of individual ice-rafted Fe-oxide grains, we find evidence for episodic glaciation of distinct source regions on Greenland as far-ranging as similar to 68 degrees N and similar to 80 degrees N synchronous with ice-rafting from circum-Arctic sources, beginning in the middle Eocene. Glacial intervals broadly coincide with reduced CO2, with a potential threshold for glacial ice stability near similar to 500 p.p.m.v. The middle Eocene represents the Cenozoic onset of a dynamic cryosphere, with ice in both hemispheres during transient glacials and substantial regional climate heterogeneity. A more stable cryosphere developed at the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and is now threatened by anthropogenic emissions. |
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Old Dominion University Norfolk (ODU) NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) NSF-ARC 1107942 Department of Energy through BES grant DE-FG02-13ER16402 NSF through CAREER awardNational Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-1325054 "Laboratoire d'Excellence" LabexMER ANR-10-LABX-19 French government under the program "Investissements d'Avenir"French National Research Agency (ANR) ANR-10-LABX-0019,LabexMER,LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean(2010) |
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Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice |
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Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice |
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Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice |
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Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice |
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Evidence for ephemeral middle Eocene to early Oligocene Greenland glacial ice and pan-Arctic sea ice |
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evidence for ephemeral middle eocene to early oligocene greenland glacial ice and pan-arctic sea ice |
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