Polar Front in the Oligocene (IMAGE)

University of South Carolina

Polar Front in the Oligocene

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The boundary between the easterly and westerly prevailing winds (the polar front) during the Oligocene epoch (yellow line) was determined from fossil data.

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Image: adapted from <I>Nature</I>.

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