A circumpolar dust conveyor in the glacial Southern Ocean
Dust deposition brings iron that fuels ocean productivity, a connection impacting climate over geological time. Here the authors use sediment cores to show that in contrast to dynamics today, during the last glacial maximum westerly winds shuttled dust from Australia and South America around Antarct...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18858-y |