Late Cretaceous seasonal ocean variability from the Arctic

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Davies, Andrew, Kemp, Alan E. S., Pike, Jennifer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2009
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; QE Geology; Alpha Ridge; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific; alpha ridge; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9460/; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08141

The modern Arctic Ocean is regarded as a barometer of global change and amplifier of global warming and therefore records of past Arctic change are critical for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Little is known of the state of the Arctic Ocean in the greenhouse period of the Late Cretaceous epoch (65–99...