Clues about the formation of major ice sheets on Antarctica have been found in mud cores drilled in Mississippi, providing an important lesson about a major climate cooling event, sometimes known as the Grande Coupure or great cut.
, that was once bound up in these sediments and environments—think of today's tropical mangrove swamps—was then exposed to oxygen in the air and was available for bacteria to eat and convert back into carbon dioxide that can be released to the atmosphere.
Dr. Tom Dunkley Jones from the University of Birmingham is senior author of the paper, and said,"We've unearthed information from the Mississippi mud to answer a key question about how Antarctic ice massively expanded to continental scale." "The Eocene Oligocene transition is probably the planet's biggest climate cooling event and has had a major impact on the earth's history. As sea levels fell over this transition, we can observe how a temporary brake on atmospheric cooling took place with the release of large amounts of"This solves a puzzle about the timeline of the transition, and suggests that the beginnings of this event and the build-up of Antarctic ice sheets started some 300,000 years earlier.
The research team studied samples from marine clays covering a depth of around 137m—and compared these to other key records of this event, especially from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The team were able to use the data from the new samples to fill in gaps in the geological record, showing how sediments deposited in the area changed over time, and providing more precise timings for the sea level fall which signaled the formation of the icesheets.
Dr. Kirsty Edgar, the University of Birmingham said,"Our paper gives us a valuable new clue about how Earth's climate can undergo dramatic shifts and how this is often strongly linked to the biosphere and"Understanding these past events gives us a clearer picture of the beauty and complexity of the Earth'sMarcelo A.
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