Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-209-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-209-2022
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Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene transition

Nick Thompson, Ulrich Salzmann, Adrián López-Quirós, Peter K. Bijl, Frida S. Hoem, Johan Etourneau, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Sabine Roignant, Emma Hocking, Michael Amoo, and Carlota Escutia

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Sporomorph counts, diversity, DCA and climate estimate calculations from ODP Hole 113-696B Nick Thompson, Ulrich Salzmann, Adrián López-Quirós, Peter K. Bijl, Frida Hoem, Johan Etourneau, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Sabine Roignant, Emma Hocking, Michael Amoo, and Carlota Escutia https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936435

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New pollen and spore data from the Antarctic Peninsula region reveal temperate rainforests that changed and adapted in response to Eocene climatic cooling, roughly 35.5 Myr ago, and glacially related disturbance in the early Oligocene, approximately 33.5 Myr ago. The timing of these events indicates that the opening of ocean gateways alone did not trigger Antarctic glaciation, although ocean gateways may have played a role in climate cooling.