The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

From greenhouse to icehouse–the Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica

JE Francis, S Marenssi, R Levy, M Hambrey… - Developments in earth …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The change from a warm, ice-free greenhouse world to the glacial Antarctic icehouse
occurred during the latest Eocene–earliest Oligocene. Prior to this, during the Early–Middle …

Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

RH Levy, SR Meyers, TR Naish, NR Golledge… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Deep sea geological records indicate that Antarctic ice-sheet growth and decay is strongly
influenced by the Earth's astronomical variations (known as Milankovitch cycles), and that …

Antarctic Ice Sheet variability across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition

S Galeotti, R DeConto, T Naish, P Stocchi, F Florindo… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
About 34 million years ago, Earth's climate cooled and an ice sheet formed on Antarctica as
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) fell below~ 750 parts per million (ppm). Sedimentary …

Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume

B Duncan, R McKay, R Levy, T Naish, JG Prebble… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic ice sheets is thought to be driven primarily by long-term
changes in radiative forcing, but the tectonic evolution of Antarctica may also have played a …

The palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance of climate proxies for data-model comparisons

PJ Markwick - 2007‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Palaeoclimate interpretations based on geological proxies of climate are fundamental to our
understanding of climate change in the geological record. Most proxy definitions depend …

Expedition 349 summary

CF Li, J Lin, DK Kulhanek, T Williams, R Bao, A Briais… - 2015‏ - boris.unibe.ch
C.-F. Li, J. Lin, DK Kulhanek, T. Williams, R. Bao, A. Briais, EA Brown, Y. Chen, PD Clift, FS
Colwell, KA Dadd, W.-W. Ding, I. Hernández-Almeida, X.-L. Huang, S. Hyun, T. Jiang, AAP …

Strength and variability of the Oligocene Southern Ocean surface temperature gradient

FS Hoem, I Sauermilch, AK Aleksinski… - … Earth & Environment, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Large Oligocene Antarctic ice sheets co-existed with warm proximal waters offshore
Wilkes Land. Here we provide a broader Southern Ocean perspective to such warmth by …

Cenozoic climate and sea level history from glacimarine strata off the Victoria Land coast, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica

PJ Barrett - Glacial sedimentary processes and products, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the record of past climate and sea level from 34 to 17 Ma provided by
continuous core through 1500 m of shallow marine strata off the Victoria Land coast of …

Oligocene to Holocene erosion and glacial history in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, inferred from exhumation of the Dorrel Rock intrusive complex and from …

S Rocchi, WE LeMasurier… - Geological Society of …, 2006‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Dorrel Rock intrusive complex in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, consists of
a coarse-grained gabbro cut by fine-grained benmoreite and trachyte dikes, all exposed in a …