There was minimal cooling in the North Atlantic Ocean during the Oligocene inception of the Antarctic ice sheet, according to a sediment record. This finding suggests asynchronous climate changes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Herbert, T. Into the ice age. Nature Geosci 11, 624–625 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0189-2
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