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climatic cooling that took place during this time period was the growth of the EAIS, termed the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Expansion (EAIE). A thermal shift from wet to cold-based glaciers is recorded from the Transantarctic Mountains about 13.94 Ma, reflecting a mean annual temperature drop of 25-30 °C. Significant sections of ice on the Antarctic continent are believed to have started growth at the beginning of the Middle Miocene disruption and continued

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