Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

A deep Tasman outflow of Pacific waters during the last glacial period

  • Torben Struve,
  • David J. Wilson,
  • Sophia K. V. Hines,
  • Jess F. Adkins,
  • Tina van de Flierdt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31116-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Using cold-water corals, this work identifies a deep outflow of Pacific waters via the Tasman Sea during the last ice age, thus highlighting the role of this area for the interoceanic exchange of water masses on climatic time scales.