The tectonic history of Drake Passage and its possible impacts on global climate

Y Lagabrielle, Y Goddéris, Y Donnadieu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study provides an integrated review of plate tectonic models of the evolution of the
Antarctica–Patagonia connection compared to geological records collected on land in …

The role of ocean gateways on cooling climate on long time scales

WP Sijp, AS von der Heydt, HA Dijkstra, S Flögel… - Global and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
We examine ocean changes in response to changes in paleogeography from the
Cretaceous to present in an intermediate complexity model and in the fully coupled CCSM3 …

[图书][B] Quaternary sea-level changes: a global perspective

CV Murray-Wallace, CD Woodroffe - 2014 - books.google.com
There have been significant changes in sea level over the past two million years, and a
complete understanding of natural cycles of change as well as anthropogenic effects is …

[图书][B] Biogeographic atlas of the Southern Ocean

C De Broyer, P Koubbi, H Griffiths, SA Grant - 2014 - core.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

D Jablonski, CL Belanger, SK Berke… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Latitudinal diversity gradients are underlain by complex combinations of origination,
extinction, and shifts in geographic distribution and therefore are best analyzed by …

Evolution and biodiversity of Antarctic organisms: a molecular perspective

AD Rogers - … transactions of the royal society B …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Antarctic biota is highly endemic, and the diversity and abundance of taxonomic groups
differ from elsewhere in the world. Such characteristics have resulted from evolution in …

A molecular phylogeny of the Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae): unequal evolutionary rates, morphological parallelism, and biogeography of the Southern Ocean

ST Williams, DG Reid, DTJ Littlewood - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2003 - Elsevier
A molecular phylogeny is presented for the subfamily Littorininae (including representatives
of all subgeneric taxa and all members of a group of southern-temperate species formerly …

Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene

JC Zachos, LR Kump - Global and Planetary Change, 2005 - Elsevier
The initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the early Oligocene (∼ 34 Ma) is represented by a
distinct positive anomaly in the marine δ18O record designated Oi-1 and accompanied by …

Onset and role of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

PF Barker, GM Filippelli, F Florindo, EE Martin… - Deep Sea Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
For some time, onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) was considered to have
caused or stabilised full Antarctic glaciation. Recently, however, the importance of the ACC …

Evidence for late Oligocene establishment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

HA Pfuhl, IN McCave - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Removal of the last impediment to circum-Antarctic flow–opening of the Drake Passage
between Antarctica and South America–is essential to establishment of the ACC, and has …