Abstract

The causes of Mid-Pleistocene Transition global cooling 1 million years ago are still unknown. Here, the authors find the subarctic North Pacific became stratified during these glaciations due to closure of the Bering Strait, which would have removed CO2 from the atmosphere and caused global cooling.

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Title
Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling
Author
Kender, Sev 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ravelo, Ana Christina 2 ; Worne, Savannah 3 ; Swann, George E A 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Leng, Melanie J 4 ; Asahi, Hirofumi 5 ; Becker, Julia 6 ; Henrieka Detlef 7 ; Aiello, Ivano W 8 ; Andreasen, Dyke 2 ; Hall, Ian R 9 

 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, UK; NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK 
 University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA 
 Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK 
 NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK; Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, UK 
 Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan 
 Department of Geosciences, State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, Germany 
 Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark 
 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, USA 
 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 
Pages
1-11
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Dec 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2158542231
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.