Cenozoic paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic reconstructions in the Drake-Scotia Gateway

• Main Author: López Quirós, Adrián
• Other Authors: Escutia Dotti, Carlota, Lobo Sánchez, Francisco José, Universidad de Granada. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de la Tierra; Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Granada 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; Scotia Sea; Weddell; Ona Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80946

The role that the opening and deepening of the Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea played in the development of the first Cenozoic continental ice sheet in Antarctica and the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT) is still uncertain. This limited k...