Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean
Article Abstract:
The subarctic Pacific halocline developed at the same time as the glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere nearly 3 million years ago. This would have reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in a similar way to the effect of the stratification of the Antarctic surface ocean during the Pleistocene glacial periods.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago
Article Abstract:
Attention is given to the temperature requirements of continental glaciation to explain the initiation of the major Northern Hemisphere glaciation 2.7 million years ago. The long held view of the temperature requirement of glaciation is consistent with the timing of the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Polar ocean stratification in a cold climate
Article Abstract:
Stratification in the modern polar ocean, which is caused during winter, is explained. Deep-sea records of biogenic opal accumulation and sedimentary nitrogen isotopic composition from the Sub-arctic North Pacific Ocean and the Southern Ocean are presented.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Genotype-environment interactions in honeybee guarding behaviour. The influence of paternity on virgin queen success in hybrid colonies of European and African honeybees
- Abstracts: Evolution of the continental crust. Metal saturation in the upper mantle
- Abstracts: Opening the gap. Quantum criticality. Turn up the temperature
- Abstracts: Generation of nuclear transfer-derived pluripotent ES cells from cloned Cdx2-deficient blastocysts. Mice cloned from olfactory sensory neurons