Arctic current flowed under deep freeze of last ice age, study says
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 29 May, 2013
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During the last ice age, when thick ice covered the Arctic, many scientists assumed that the deep currents below that feed the North Atlantic Ocean and help drive global ocean currents slowed or even stopped. But in a researchers have now shown that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times....