Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic
Autor: | Hermández-Molina, F.J., Stow, D.A.V., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Acton, G., Bahr, A., Balestra, B., Ducassou, E., Flood, R., Flores, J.-A., Furota, S., Grunert, P., Hodell, D., Jimenez-Espejo, F., Kim, J.K., Krissek, L., Kuroda, J., Li, B., Llave, E., Lofi, J., Lourens, L., Miller, M., Nanayama, F., Nishida, N., Richter, C., Roque, C., Pereira, H., Sanchez Goñi, M.F., Sierro, F.J., Singh, A.D., Takashimizu, Y., Tzanova, A., Voelker, A., Williams, T., Xuan, C., Stratigraphy & paleontology, Stratigraphy and paleontology |
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Přispěvatelé: | Transferts en milieux poreux, Géosciences Montpellier, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Zdroj: | Science Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014, 344 (6189), pp.1244-1250. ⟨10.1126/science.1251306⟩ Science, 344(6189), 1244. American Association for the Advancement of Science |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
Popis: | The when of Mediterranean water outflow The trickle of water that began to flow from the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean after the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar turned into a veritable flood by the end of the Pliocene 2 to 3 million years ago. It then began to influence large-scale ocean circulation in earnest. Hernández-Molina et al. describe marine sediment cores collected by an ocean drilling expedition (see the Perspective by Filippelli). The results reveal a detailed history of the timing of Mediterranean outflow water activity and show how the addition of that warm saline water to the cooler less-salty waters of the Atlantic was related to climate changes, deep ocean circulation, and plate tectonics. Science , this issue p. 1244 ; see also p. 1228 |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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