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Project

The onset of the end-Ordovician glaciation: chitinozoan and graptolite distribution unravel its causative mechanisms.

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3E004106

Duration

01 October 2007 → 30 September 2009

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Jacques Verniers

Fellow

Thijs Vandenbroucke

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Geology
- Animal biology
- Evolutionary biology

Keywords

chitinozoans Hirnantian glaciation ocean gateway hypothesis

Project description

This project uses the spatial distribution and geochemistry of the planktonic chitinozoans and graptolites to reconstruct and evaluate the climatic impact of the deflection of water masses during the onset of the end-Ordovician glaciation. It provides a test for the "closure of ocean gateway hypothesis", which is a recently postulated cause of Late Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciation.

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