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Glacial Mediterranean palaeo-oceanography has been reconstructed from planktonic foraminifers once living in this small ocean. Inferred sea surface temperatures ranged from 13°C in the Alboran Sea to 18°C in the Levantine Sea during the winter and from 19 to 26°C respectively during the summer. An influx of cool, fresh surface water from the Aegean Sea disturbed this gradient in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Thiede, J. A Glacial Mediterranean. Nature 276, 680–683 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276680a0
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