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Increased Dust Deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean During Glacial Periods
Description: Dust deposition in the Southern Ocean constitutes a critical modulator of past global climate variability, but how it has varied temporally and geographically is underdetermined. Here, researchers present data sets of glacial-interglacial dust-supply cycles from the largest Southern Ocean sector, the polar South Pacific, indicating three times higher dust deposition during glacial periods than during interglacials for the past million years. [Source: Science / AAAS]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1245424
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Source: Science / AAAS
Publish Date: 1/24/2014
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