Onset of North Atlantic deep water production coincident with inception of the Cenozoic global cooling trend

Here we show that the onset of deep water overflow from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea into the North Atlantic, interpreted to represent the onset of a modern-style North Atlantic Deep Water mass, commenced close to the early to middle Eocene boundary. This finding is based on the identification of a l...

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Main Authors: Hohbein, M, Sexton, P, Cartwright, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012