The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Environmental magnetism: Principles and applications

Q Liu, AP Roberts, JC Larrasoaña… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In environmental magnetism, rock and mineral magnetic techniques are used to investigate
the formation, transportation, deposition, and postdepositional alterations of magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

Quaternary glaciations and chronology

J Ehlers, PL Gibbard, PD Hughes - Past glacial environments, 2018 - Elsevier
Since the recognition in the mid-19th century that glaciers had been considerably more
extensive than at present, the Quaternary (Pleistocene and Holocene series) has been …

Global cooling during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition

Z Liu, M Pagani, D Zinniker, R DeConto, M Huber… - Science, 2009 - science.org
About 34 million years ago, Earth's climate shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with
glacial conditions on Antarctica characterized by substantial ice sheets. How Earth's …

History of sea ice in the Arctic

L Polyak, RB Alley, JT Andrews… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Arctic sea-ice extent and volume are declining rapidly. Several studies project that the Arctic
Ocean may become seasonally ice-free by the year 2040 or even earlier. Putting this into …

Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation

RM DeConto, D Pollard, PA Wilson, H Pälike, CH Lear… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The long-standing view of Earth's Cenozoic glacial history calls for the first continental-scale
glaciation of Antarctica in the earliest Oligocene epoch (∼ 33.6 million years ago), followed …

On the origin of Cenozoic and Mesozoic “third-order” eustatic sequences

S Boulila, B Galbrun, KG Miller, SF Pekar… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The origin of third-order eustatic sequences is reviewed by comparing recent sequence
stratigraphic data to the latest, best-constrained astronomical model. Middle Eocene to …

Coupled greenhouse warming and deep‐sea acidification in the middle Eocene

SM Bohaty, JC Zachos, F Florindo… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) is an enigmatic warming event that
represents an abrupt reversal in long‐term cooling through the Eocene. In order to further …

Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

CH Lear, TR Bailey, PN Pearson, HK Coxall… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene (EO) climate transition (ca. 34 Ma) marks a period of
Antarctic ice growth and a major step from early Cenozoic greenhouse conditions toward …