Map of the World Showing the Route of the Great Ocean Conveyor Currents (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Map of the World Showing the Route of the Great Ocean Conveyor Currents

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Ocean currents slowed 950,000 years ago, triggering colder but less frequent ice ages.

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Leo Pena

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