Pacific push into the Atlantic
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
Related to:Yu, J.; Menviel, L.; Jin, Z.D.; Anderson, R.F.; Jian, Z.; Piotrowski, A.M.; Ma, X.; Rohling, E.J.; Zhang, F.; Marino, G.; McManus, J.F. (2020). Last glacial atmospheric CO 2 decline due to widespread Pacific deep-water expansion. Nature Geoscience 13(9): 628-633. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0610-5, more
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| Abstract |
Deep, carbon-rich Pacific waters intruded into the South Atlantic some 38 to 28 thousand years ago. This deep Pacific expansion could have represented a considerable sink of atmospheric CO2, one that helped initiate the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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