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Late Eocene to early Oligocene productivity events in the proto-Southern Ocean and correlation to climate change
Gabrielle Rodrigues de Faria
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Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, Malteserstraße 74–100, 12249 Berlin, Germany
David Lazarus
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Johan Renaudie
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Jessica Stammeier
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Volkan Özen
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, Malteserstraße 74–100, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Ulrich Struck
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, Malteserstraße 74–100, 12249 Berlin, Germany
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Short summary
Export productivity is part of the global carbon cycle, influencing the climate system via biological pump. About 34 million years ago, the Earth's climate experienced a climate transition from a greenhouse state to an icehouse state with the onset of ice sheets in Antarctica. Our study shows important productivity events in the Southern Ocean preceding this climatic shift. Our findings strongly indicate that the biological pump potentially played an important role in that past climate change.
Export productivity is part of the global carbon cycle, influencing the climate system via...
