| Literature DB >> 24926012 |
F Javier Hernández-Molina1, Dorrik A V Stow2, Carlos A Alvarez-Zarikian3, Gary Acton4, André Bahr5, Barbara Balestra6, Emmanuelle Ducassou7, Roger Flood8, José-Abel Flores9, Satoshi Furota10, Patrick Grunert11, David Hodell12, Francisco Jimenez-Espejo13, Jin Kyoung Kim14, Lawrence Krissek15, Junichiro Kuroda16, Baohua Li17, Estefania Llave18, Johanna Lofi19, Lucas Lourens20, Madeline Miller21, Futoshi Nanayama22, Naohisa Nishida22, Carl Richter23, Cristina Roque24, Hélder Pereira25, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi26, Francisco J Sierro9, Arun Deo Singh27, Craig Sloss28, Yasuhiro Takashimizu29, Alexandrina Tzanova30, Antje Voelker24, Trevor Williams31, Chuang Xuan32.
Abstract
Sediments cored along the southwestern Iberian margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 339 provide constraints on Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) circulation patterns from the Pliocene epoch to the present day. After the Strait of Gibraltar opened (5.33 million years ago), a limited volume of MOW entered the Atlantic. Depositional hiatuses indicate erosion by bottom currents related to higher volumes of MOW circulating into the North Atlantic, beginning in the late Pliocene. The hiatuses coincide with regional tectonic events and changes in global thermohaline circulation (THC). This suggests that MOW influenced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), THC, and climatic shifts by contributing a component of warm, saline water to northern latitudes while in turn being influenced by plate tectonics.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 24926012 DOI： 10.1126/science.1251306
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728