Mid-Pliocene restriction of the Indonesian Gateway andits implication on ocean circulation and climate

The impacts of the constrictions of the Indonesian Gateway and the Central American Seaway on ocean circulation are among the keys to understand Pliocene climate evolution, including the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation between 3.5 and 2.5 Ma. Plate tectonic reconstructions show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karas, Cyrus
Other Authors: Nürnberg, Dirk, Tiedemann, Ralf
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 2010
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Online Access:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-48652
https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00004865
https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dissertation_derivate_00003139/Karas_diss.pdf