Is there a causal link between early Eocene opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and the onset of Eocene cooling?

Peter Bijl (a) & Willem Sijp (b)
(a) Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands. E-mail: p.k.bijl@uu.nl (b) ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New SouthWales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.