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Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Evangelinos, Dimitris; Etourneau, Johan; van de Flierdt, Tina; Crosta, Xavier; Jeandel, Catherine; Flores, José-Abel; Harwood, David M.; Valero, Luis; Ducassou, Emmanuelle; Sauermilch, Isabel; Klocker, Andreas; Cacho, Isabel; Pena, Leopoldo D.; Kreissig, Katharina; Benoit, Mathieu; Belhadj, Moustafa; Paredes, Eduardo; Garcia-Solsona, Ester; López-Quirós, Adrián; Salabarnada, Ariadna; Escutia, Carlota (2024). Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Nature Geoscience 17(2): 165-170. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01356-3
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908
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    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays a pivotal role in global climate through its strong influence on the global overturning circulation, ocean heat and CO2 uptake. However, when and how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current reached its modern-like characteristics remains disputed. Here we present neodymium isotope and sortable silt records from sediment cores in the Southwest Pacific and South Indian oceans spanning the past 31 million years. Our data indicate that a circumpolar current like that of today did not exist before the late Miocene cooling. These findings suggest that the emergence of a homogeneous and deep-reaching strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current was not linked solely to the opening and deepening of Southern Ocean Gateways triggering continental-scale Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion during the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (∼34 Ma). Instead, we find that besides tectonic pre-conditioning, the expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea ice since the middle Miocene Climate Transition (∼14 Ma) played a crucial role. This led to stronger density contrast and intensified Southern Westerly Winds across the Southern Ocean, establishing a vigorous deep-reaching circumpolar flow and an enhanced global overturning circulation, which amplified the late Cenozoic global cooling.
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