A sudden mid-Oligocene decline of global sea level resulted from
A) substantial expansion of the Antarctic glacial ice cap.
B) establishment of the circum-polar current.
C) an oxygen isotope shift in the skeletons of planktonic foraminifera.
D) a large meteorite impact on the eastern coast of the United States.
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