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Northeastern Caribbean Rainfall Variability Linked to Solar and Volcanic Forcing 加勒比东北部降雨多变性与太阳和火山强迫有关

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004720

R. Vieten, Sophie F. Warken, D. Zanchettin, Amos Winter, Denis Scholz, David Black, G. Koltai, Christoph Spötl

{"title":"Northeastern Caribbean Rainfall Variability Linked to Solar and Volcanic Forcing","authors":"R. Vieten, Sophie F. Warken, D. Zanchettin, Amos Winter, Denis Scholz, David Black, G. Koltai, Christoph Spötl","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004720","url":null,"abstract":"We present a 500‐year precipitation‐sensitive record based on co‐varying speleothem δ18O values and Mg/Ca ratios from Larga cave in Puerto Rico. This multi‐proxy record shows that the evolution of rainfall in the northeastern Caribbean was characterized by alternating centennial dry and wet phases corresponding to reduced versus enhanced convective activity. These phases occurred synchronous with relatively cool and warm tropical Atlantic sea‐surface temperatures (SSTs), respectively. While the observed pattern suggests a close link of northeastern Caribbean rainfall to the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability, a regional comparison reveals intermittent regional heterogeneity especially on decadal timescales, which may be related to a superimposing influence of the Pacific and Atlantic basins. Furthermore, the speleothem‐based hydroclimate reconstruction indicates a significant volcanic impact during the past two centuries, and further reveals a potential solar signal in the preceding three centuries. We posit that the forcing likely shifted from solar to volcanic during the eighteenth century in being an important source of multidecadal to centennial Caribbean rainfall variability. The link between convective rainfall and natural forcing may be explained through a modulation of SST variations in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140761336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shifting Depth Distributions of Deep‐Sea Corals in the Southwest Pacific: Implications for Deglacial Dynamics of the Southern Ocean 西南太平洋深海珊瑚深度分布的变化：对南大洋冰川动力学的影响

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004824

Ronald E. Thresher, Stewart J. Fallon

{"title":"Shifting Depth Distributions of Deep‐Sea Corals in the Southwest Pacific: Implications for Deglacial Dynamics of the Southern Ocean","authors":"Ronald E. Thresher, Stewart J. Fallon","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004824","url":null,"abstract":"We compare depth and temporal distributions of sub‐fossil assemblages of two cold‐water scleractinian corals on seamounts in the Southwest Pacific to help define the temporal variations of water mass properties in the Southern Ocean (SO) during deglaciation. Peaks in the deep‐water abundance of the two species complement one another, with Desmophyllum dianthus peaking around the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR), and Solenosmilia variabilis briefly during the late Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) and during the Younger Dryas (YD). Environmental tolerances of the two species and the geochemistry of S. variabilis carbonate skeletons suggest that their secular distributions reflect complementary effects of temperature (higher at Antarctic Intermediate Water/Upper Circumpolar Deep Water depths during the YD and late HS1) and surface productivity (lower during the YD and HS1). Higher temperatures at depth we interpret as evidence of increased Zonal West Wind (ZWW)‐driven Ekman pumping during the late HS1 and YD, whereas coeval low surface production reflects poleward expansion of sub‐tropical water masses as a result of correlated poleward shifts of the ZWW belt and the Intertropical Convergence Zone. More broadly, a continuous deep coral population in the southwest Pacific that spans two species and three deglacial periods (HS1, ACR and the YD) and an early Holocene shift in coral distribution from deeper to shallower habitats appear to reflect large‐scale changes during deglaciation in SO temperature profiles and productivity.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Eocene‐Oligocene Intensification of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the North Atlantic Ocean 北大西洋西边界深层洋流始新世-更新世时期的强化过程

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004731

Andrew M. Parent, Kristin D. Chilton, T. V. van Peer, S. Bohaty, James F. Spray, H. Scher, Paul A. Wilson, B. Romans

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The Toba Eruption 74,000 Years ago Strengthened the Indian Winter Monsoon‐Evidence From Coccolithophores 7.4 万年前的鸟羽火山喷发加强了印度冬季季风--来自嗜球藻的证据

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004823

Jose Dominick Guballa, Jörg Bollmann, Katherine Schmidt, A. Lückge

{"title":"The Toba Eruption 74,000 Years ago Strengthened the Indian Winter Monsoon‐Evidence From Coccolithophores","authors":"Jose Dominick Guballa, Jörg Bollmann, Katherine Schmidt, A. Lückge","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004823","url":null,"abstract":"The global impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) supereruption is still heavily debated, ranging from having little effects on climate to significantly affecting modern human evolution. Climate models and proxy records show that the eruption may have caused cooling of the Asian landmass, thus impacting regional climate such as the Indian monsoon system. However, the immediate effect of the eruption on the Indian monsoon has not been indisputably demonstrated in any proxy record. Here, we present a paleo‐primary productivity (PP) record in core SO130‐289KL from the northeastern Arabian Sea based on the coccolithophore species Florisphaera profunda transfer function. Florisphaera profunda decreased from ∼30% before the YTT eruption to ∼8% right after the YTT eruption, which translates to an increase in PP by ∼65% from a long‐term average of ∼200 gC/m2/yr for about 8–19 years after the eruption. The duration was estimated using a new error‐weighted mean age of the YTT eruption (73.9 ± 0.1 ka, 2σ uncertainties) based on recent age estimates from ice cores, radiometric dating, and speleothem records. The elevated PP is most likely linked to the deepening of the surface ocean mixed layer driven by strengthened northeasterly Indian winter monsoon winds. This hypothesis is supported by stable oxygen isotope records from speleothem and ice cores, which show indications of a strengthening of the Indian winter monsoon during times of increased PP. Our results support previous modeling studies and provide unequivocal evidence from a marine record for an Indian monsoon response to the supereruption.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140795288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Thank You to Our 2023 Peer Reviewers 感谢 2023 年同行评审员

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2024pa004909

M. Huber, U. Röhl

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Large Igneous Province Control on Ocean Anoxia and Eutrophication in the North Sea at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 大火成岩带对古新世-始新世最热时期北海海洋缺氧和富营养化的控制作用

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004756

E. Mariani, S. Kender, S. Hesselbo, Kara Bogus, Kate Littler, J. Riding, Melanie J. Leng, S. Kemp, K. Dybkjær, G. Pedersen, Thomas Wagner, A. Dickson

{"title":"Large Igneous Province Control on Ocean Anoxia and Eutrophication in the North Sea at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum","authors":"E. Mariani, S. Kender, S. Hesselbo, Kara Bogus, Kate Littler, J. Riding, Melanie J. Leng, S. Kemp, K. Dybkjær, G. Pedersen, Thomas Wagner, A. Dickson","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004756","url":null,"abstract":"The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a global hyperthermal event ∼56 Ma characterized by massive input of carbon into the ocean–atmosphere system and global warming. A leading hypothesis for its trigger is the emplacement of the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP), with extensive extrusion/intrusion of igneous material into nearby sedimentary basins, forcing local uplift and warming‐inducing carbon emissions. It remains unclear if oceanographic changes in the North Sea–Norwegian Sea–Arctic basins, such as anoxia and productivity, were causally linked to local NAIP uplift/activity, and at what time scales these perturbations occurred. To test mechanisms and time scales, we present geochemical proxies (XRF analysis, clay mineralogy, molybdenum isotopes, and pyrite framboid size distribution) in undisrupted marine sediment core E−8X located in the central North Sea. We find evidence for a rapid onset of anoxia/euxinia at the negative carbon isotope excursion from redox proxies, followed by a gradual drawdown of molybdenum/total organic carbon (Mo/TOC) during the PETM main phase indicative of tectonically‐restricted basin likely from NAIP uplift. A short‐lived increase in Mo, pyrite and TOC occurred during a precursor event associated with a sedimentary mercury pulse indicative of volcanic activity. We suggest thermal uplift and flood basalt volcanism tectonically restricted the North Sea and tipped it into an euxinic state via volcanic emission–oceanographic feedbacks inducing eutrophication. This fine temporal separation of tectonic versus climatic geochemical proxies, combined with pulsed NAIP volcanism, demonstrates that Large Igneous Province emplacements can, at least locally, result in ocean biogeochemical feedbacks operating on relatively short timescales.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140777960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Climate Model Simulations of the Effects of Orbital Parameters on Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitude 气候模型模拟轨道参数对冰川平衡线高度的影响

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004779

G. R. O’Neill, A. J. Broccoli

{"title":"Climate Model Simulations of the Effects of Orbital Parameters on Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitude","authors":"G. R. O’Neill, A. J. Broccoli","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004779","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of obliquity and precession on conditions favorable for Northern Hemisphere glaciation are explored using an energy balance and mass balance model of equilibrium line altitude (ELA), the height on a glacier where accumulation and ablation are in balance annually. Climate forcing for the ELA model is obtained from idealized single‐forcing orbital simulations with two atm‐ocean general circulation models, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) CM2.1 and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Earth System Model version 1.2. Over Scandinavia and Baffin Island, the respective locations in which the Scandinavian and Laurentide ice sheets are thought to have originated, low obliquity and perihelion at the boreal winter solstice are associated with lower ELA values, as would be expected from the orbital theory of the ice ages. Linear reconstructions of ELA variations over the past 800 kyr indicate that precession dominated ELA variations in Scandinavia and Baffin Island in the GFDL model, and in Scandinavia in the NCAR model. Obliquity and precession played equal roles in Baffin Island in the NCAR model. A decomposition of the ELA responses finds that the effects of ablation on ELA are much larger than the effects of precipitation. Overall, the findings of this study point to precession being a more important factor in glacial inception than obliquity, which contrasts with previous findings in which obliquity had a slightly larger effect on positive degree days (PDDs), a simple metric for ablation. This is likely due to differences in seasonality of melt from the ELA model and PDDs.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140370584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strong Climate Control on the Millennial‐Scale Dust Variability and Sediment Provenances in the Equatorial Indian Ocean Inferred From Sr‐Nd Isotopes 从Sr-Nd同位素推断气候对赤道印度洋千年尺度尘埃变化和沉积物产状的强烈控制作用

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004808

Arvind Shukla, S. Singh, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Aka Sharma, A. P. Dimri

{"title":"Strong Climate Control on the Millennial‐Scale Dust Variability and Sediment Provenances in the Equatorial Indian Ocean Inferred From Sr‐Nd Isotopes","authors":"Arvind Shukla, S. Singh, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Aka Sharma, A. P. Dimri","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004808","url":null,"abstract":"High‐resolution Sr and Nd isotope compositions along with major and trace element abundances have been analyzed in silicate fraction of sediments core, SSD004‐GC03, from the Equatorial Indian Ocean (7.2°N and 77.9°E) at 1,540 m water depth with a depositional history of ∼38 ka to determine source variabilities and their controlling factors. 87Sr/86Sr (0.71978–0.72491), ƐNd (−14.8 to −21.9), and a couple of source diagnostic elements display profound variability over the depositional time scale and point toward major sediment contribution from the Peninsular Gneissic Complex (PGC) and the Deccan Basalts along with aeolian dust flux, their relative proportions being determined by climate variability. The cold/arid periods are characterized by an enhanced proportion of aeolian dust and the Deccan Basalts, whereas the sediment contribution from the PGC is augmented during the warm/humid periods. The sediment provenance variations at the Equatorial Indian Ocean coincide very well with known cold/arid (Heinrich Stadial events: HS 1–4, LGM, Younger Dryas, 8.2 ka, 5.2 ka, and 1.1 ka) and warm/humid (Early Deglacial, Holocene Intensified Monsoon) climatic events reported in the tropical region and sea‐level change which are strongly captured by the Sr‐Nd isotope and elemental composition of sediments. The present investigation underscores the significant role of climate, mainly the aridity, in modulating the dust fluxes and erosion intensity and the strong coupling between Indian monsoon and North Atlantic climatic oscillations and further demonstrates minimal time delay between the production and transport of sediment from source to sink.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140273162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pliocene Weakening of Gradients in Temperature but Not in Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific 上新世东赤道太平洋温度梯度减弱，但生产力并未减弱

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004711

K. M. Kimble, T. Herbert, C. A. Jones

{"title":"Pliocene Weakening of Gradients in Temperature but Not in Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific","authors":"K. M. Kimble, T. Herbert, C. A. Jones","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004711","url":null,"abstract":"The modern eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP) exhibits strong upwelling, producing pronounced gradients in sea surface temperature (SST), nutrient concentration, and biological productivity between 80° and 140°W. During the globally warmer late Pliocene (3.0–3.6 Ma), the EEP may have experienced permanent El Niño‐like conditions, supported by a reduced SST gradient across the equatorial Pacific. However, the weakened east‐west SST gradient has been controversial, with disparate results depending on the proxy used to monitor Western Warm Pool SSTs. We present new Pliocene alkenone‐based SST and paleoproductivity records from four Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) cores spanning an east‐west transect across the EEP, which present an internally consistent picture of SST and productivity gradients in the modern cold tongue, resolved at orbital‐scale variability. Strong agreement between core top reconstructions and satellite estimates indicates that alkenone paleotemperature and paleoproductivity proxies are appropriate for reconstructing Pliocene EEP conditions. The average SST gradient between 90° and 120°W was reduced from the modern 1.8°C gradient to 0.9°C in the late Pliocene. Despite the weakened SST gradient, the surface productivity gradient was stronger during the late Pliocene compared to modern, based on calibrated X‐ray fluorescence biogenic opal and alkenone average accumulation rates. Contrary to modern El Niño SST and productivity patterns, reduced Pliocene surface productivity did not accompany the weakened SST gradient. Instead, strong Pliocene biogenic opal and alkenone concentration accumulation gradients in the eastern EEP suggest that subsurface tilting of the nutricline and thermocline persisted to supply vigorous upwelling of warm but nutrient‐rich subsurface waters in a warmer climate.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140270573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Seismic Stratigraphy of Contourite Drift Deposits Associated With the Loop Current on the Eastern Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico 墨西哥湾东坎佩切河岸与环流有关的等高线漂移沉积的地震地层学研究

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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1029/2023pa004701

Christopher M. Lowery, Ligia Perez Cruz, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jingxuan Wei, James A. Austin, P. Standring

{"title":"Seismic Stratigraphy of Contourite Drift Deposits Associated With the Loop Current on the Eastern Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico","authors":"Christopher M. Lowery, Ligia Perez Cruz, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jingxuan Wei, James A. Austin, P. Standring","doi":"10.1029/2023pa004701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023pa004701","url":null,"abstract":"The Loop Current is a key component of global circulation via the northward transport of warm, salty water, and an important influence on Gulf of Mexico hydrography. Understanding how the Loop Current will respond to ongoing anthropogenic warming is critically important, but the history of the Loop Current is poorly known. Here, we present the results of a high resolution (3–8 m) multichannel seismic survey of pelagic carbonate sediment drifts on the eastern Campeche Bank associated with the Loop Current. We identify three seismic megasequences: Megasequence A is a Lower Cretaceous carbonate platform, Megasequence B comprises Cretaceous to lower Cenozoic pelagic carbonates with weak/no contour current flow, and Megasequence C comprises a series of large (100s of m thick) contourite drifts representing the inception and history of the Loop Current. The base of the contourites is marked by a regionally mappable unconformity eroding underling strata, sometimes incising hundreds of meters. The drifts contain a succession of sequence sets separated from each other by regional unconformities and comprising plastered drifts and massive mounded drifts, which characterize modern deposition with active moats on the seafloor. A lack of sediment cores in the study area precludes age determination of these drifts, except for the youngest (Late Pleistocene). Comparison to legacy seismic lines across Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 95, outside our study area, implies that the base of Megasequence C is Oligocene in age, and that the Loop Current developed during the global reorganization of ocean circulation around the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition.","PeriodicalId":54239,"journal":{"name":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140090469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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