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Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-405-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-405-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Research article
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07 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 07 Feb 2025

Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific

Benjamin F. Petrick, Lars Reuning, Miriam Pfeiffer, Gerald Auer, and Lorenz Schwark

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It is known that coral reefs were absent in the central Indo-Pacific during the Early Pliocene. This study uses a new temperature record based on TEX86H biomarkers from the Coral Sea between 11–2 Ma to show a 2 °C cooling in the central Indo-Pacific during the Late Miocene Cooling (7–5.4 Ma). This cooling triggered changes in terrestrial input, ocean circulation, and temperature. These multiple stressors could have caused reef collapses across the central Indo-Pacific.
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