Eocene-Oligocene paleoceanography of the subantarctic South Atlantic: Calcareous Nannofossil reconstructions of temperature, nutrient, and dissolution history

• Main Author: Pea, Laura
• Other Authors: Villa, Giuliana, Valloni, Renzo
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Parma. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra 2011
• Subjects: Calcareous nannofossils; Eocene-Oligocene; Southern Ocean; Paleoecology; Paleoceanography; GEO/01; Antarctic; Islas Orcadas Rise; Orcadas; Orcadas Rise; Antarc*; Ocean acidification; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1681

Extremely warm 'Greenhouse' climates of the early Eocene came to a gradual end during a prolonged interval of global climatic deterioration in the middle-to-late Eocene (~49 to 34 Ma), resulting in the eventual initiation of an 'Icehouse' climate state in the early Oligocene. Thi...