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Northeast Atlantic Post-Eemian Paleooceanography: a Predictive Analog of the Future1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrew McIntyre  and
William F. Ruddiman
Andrew McIntyre
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964 and Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing NY 11367
William F. Ruddiman
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland 20732
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Abstract

Samples representing the post-Eemian cool interval (approx 110,000 yr BP) were taken from 15 cores on the eastern flank of the mid-Atlantic Ridge from 42°N to 61°N lat. The floral-faunal assemblages in these samples characterize the surface paleooceanography which we consider a possible analog to the cooling expected to follow the present warm interval. The derived paleooceanographic map indicates at least a 16° lat southward displacement of cooled water masses from today. The present position of the Transitional water mass which gives N. Europe its equitable climate was then occupied by Subpolar water while the Polar Front extended south of Iceland. The result was a drop in annual temperature of the NE Atlantic surface water by at least 5°C.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , November 1972 , pp. 350 - 354
Copyright
Academic Press, Inc.

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Footnotes

1

Lamont-Doherty Contribution No. 1884.

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