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标题：Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling
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作者：Robert McKay ; Tim Naish ; Lionel Carter 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2012
卷号：109
期号：17
页码：6423-6428
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1112248109
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean on Late Pliocene global climate reconstructions has remained ambiguous due to a lack of well-dated Antarctic-proximal, paleoenvironmental records. Here we present ice sheet, sea-surface temperature, and sea ice reconstructions from the ANDRILL AND-1B sediment core recovered from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. We provide evidence for a major expansion of an ice sheet in the Ross Sea that began at [~]3.3 Ma, followed by a coastal sea surface temperature cooling of [~]2.5 {degrees}C, a stepwise expansion of sea ice, and polynya-style deep mixing in the Ross Sea between 3.3 and 2.5 Ma. The intensification of Antarctic cooling resulted in strengthened westerly winds and invigorated ocean circulation. The associated northward migration of Southern Ocean fronts has been linked with reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by restricting surface water connectivity between the ocean basins, with implications for heat transport to the high latitudes of the North Atlantic. While our results do not exclude low-latitude mechanisms as drivers for Pliocene cooling, they indicate an additional role played by southern high-latitude cooling during development of the bipolar world.
关键词：glacial history ; West Antarctic Ice Sheet ; Late Neogene ; paleooceanography ; paleoclimate