Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene

BA Christensen, W Renema… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Late Miocene to mid‐Pleistocene sedimentary proxy records reveal that northwest
Australia underwent an abrupt transition from dry to humid climate conditions at 5.5 million …

Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current

D Evangelinos, J Etourneau, T van de Flierdt… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the Exmouth-Barrow carbonate margin through the Miocene: Insights from 3D seismic data and field investigations (North West Shelf, Australia)

R Riera, V Paumard, J Bourget, T Allan, U Lebrec - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbonate margins are records of the palaeoclimatology, palaeoceanography and
palaeogeography of continental shelves, and their study can help identify both regional and …

The enigma of rare Quaternary oolites in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: A result of global oceanographic physicochemical conditions or a sampling bias?

SJ Gallagher, L Reuning, T Himmler… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine ooids are iconic indicators of shallow seawater carbonate saturation state, and their
formation has traditionally been ascribed to physicochemical processes. The Indo-Pacific …

A synthesis of monsoon exploration in the Asian marginal seas

PD Clift, C Betzler, SC Clemens, B Christensen… - Scientific …, 2022 - sd.copernicus.org
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) conducted a series of expeditions
between 2013 and 2016 that were designed to address the development of monsoon …

Timing and pacing of Indonesian Throughflow restriction and its connection to Late Pliocene climate shifts

G Auer, D De Vleeschouwer, RA Smith… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Pliocene was characterized by a gradual shift of global climate toward cooler and drier
conditions. This shift fundamentally reorganized Earth's climate from the Miocene state …

Indo-pacific Walker circulation drove Pleistocene African aridification

HJL Van der Lubbe, IR Hall, S Barker, SR Hemming… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Today, the eastern African hydroclimate is tightly linked to fluctuations in the zonal
atmospheric Walker circulation,. A growing body of evidence indicates that this circulation …

Weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon linked to interhemispheric ice-sheet growth since 12 Ma

Z Yao, X Shi, Z Guo, X Li, BN Nath, C Betzler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The evolution and driving mechanism of the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) are still
poorly understood. We here present a 12-Myr long SASM record by analyzing the strontium …

Initial Expansion of C4 Vegetation in Australia During the Late Pliocene

JW Andrae, FA McInerney, PJ Polissar… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the late Miocene, plants using the C4 photosynthetic pathway have increased to
become major components of many tropical and subtropical ecosystems. However, the …

Glacial indonesian throughflow weakening across the mid-pleistocene climatic transition

B Petrick, A Martínez-García, G Auer, L Reuning… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) controls the oceanic flux of heat and salt
between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and therewith plays an important role in modulating …