Global impacts of the Drake Passage on ocean circulation and climate as modulated by the Ismuth of Panama
The Eocene-Oligocene boundary marked the transition from a very warm to a much cooler global climate, and the first appearance of large ice sheets in Antarctica. The opening of the Drake Passage and hence the establishment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) has been proposed as a mechanism f...
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McGill University
2012
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110581 |