Wednesday, 13 March 2019

A change in ocean circulation makes for long glacial periods through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Isotope records from the Southern Ocean imply that prolonged epochs of time between glacial and interglacial periods through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition were caused by a reduction in deep waters mixing with the surface and the positive feedback it created with the salinity gradient.

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