Homepage: http://www.passagen.uni-kiel.de
Funding organisation: DFG (FOR 451)
Type: Forschergruppe
Runtime: 2003-2005
Coordination: Michael Sarnthein, University of Kiel
Data curator: WDC-MARE
Ocean Gateways data sets, archived in the data library PANGAEA®
Ocean gateways, such as the once-open Panama gateway, act as critical thresholds in the evolution of global climate and marine biota. Global cooling over the past 50 million years was associated with the opening of marine gateways around Antarctica, the closing of low-latitude gateways, and the initiation of meridional flow in the Atlantic and possibly in the Pacific through its connection to the Arctic.
Data management is carried out at ...
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