Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene

The mid-Pliocene warm period is a recent warm geological period that shares similarities with predictions of future climate. It is generally held the mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation must have been stronger, to explain a weak Atlantic meridional δ13C gradient and large northe...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Zhongshi, Nisancioglu, Kerim H., Ninnemann, Ulysses S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586712/