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De Schepper S, Schreck M, Beck KM, et al. Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes. Nat Commun. 2015;6:8659doi: 10.1038/ncomms9659.
De Schepper, S., Schreck, M., Beck, K. M., Matthiessen, J., Fahl, K., & Mangerud, G. (2015). Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes. Nature communications, 68659. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9659
De Schepper, Stijn, et al. "Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes." Nature communications vol. 6 (2015): 8659. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9659
De Schepper S, Schreck M, Beck KM, Matthiessen J, Fahl K, Mangerud G. Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes. Nat Commun. 2015 Oct 28;6:8659. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9659. PMID: 26507275; PMCID: PMC4639897.
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Nat Commun. 2015 Oct 28;6:8659. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9659.

Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes.

Nature communications

Stijn De Schepper, Michael Schreck, Kristina Marie Beck, Jens Matthiessen, Kirsten Fahl, Gunn Mangerud

Affiliations

  1. Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Allégaten 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway.
  2. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Allégaten 41, N-5007 Bergen, Norway.
  3. Arctic Research Centre, Korea Polar Research Institute, 26 Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, 406-840 Incheon, Korea.
  4. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany.

PMID: 26507275 PMCID: PMC4639897 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9659

Abstract

The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that the Nordic Seas cooled during the earliest Pliocene, before global cooling. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the precise timing of Nordic Seas cooling has limited our understanding of the governing mechanisms. Here, using marine palynology, we show that cooling in the Nordic Seas was coincident with the first trans-Arctic migration of cool-water Pacific mollusks around 4.5 million years ago, and followed by the development of a modern-like Nordic Seas surface circulation. Nordic Seas cooling precedes global cooling by 500,000 years; as such, we propose that reconfiguration of the Bering Strait and Central American Seaway triggered the development of a modern circulation in the Nordic Seas, which is essential for North Atlantic Deep Water formation and a precursor for more widespread Greenland glaciation in the late Pliocene.

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