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Miocene restriction of the Pacific-North Atlantic throughflow strengthened Atlantic overturning circulation

Export of warm and salty waters from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic is an essential component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). However, there was also an active AMOC during the Miocene, despite evidence for an open Central American Seaway (CAS) that would have allowed...

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Autores principales: Kirillova, Valeriia, Osborne, Anne H., Störling, Tjördis, Frank, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31492857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12034-7