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 …

[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 …

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

Global vegetation dynamics and latitudinal temperature gradients during the Mid to Late Miocene (15.97–5.33 Ma)

MJ Pound, AM Haywood, U Salzmann, JB Riding - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
A 617 site palaeobotanical dataset for the Mid to Late Miocene is presented. This dataset is
internally consistent and provides a comprehensive overview of vegetational change from …

Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch

J Pross, L Contreras, PK Bijl, DR Greenwood… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The warmest global climates of the past 65 million years occurred during the early Eocene
epoch (about 55 to 48 million years ago), when the Equator-to-pole temperature gradients …

The evolution of extant South American tropical biomes

C Jaramillo - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review explores the evolution of extant South American tropical biomes, focusing on
when and why they developed. Tropical vegetation experienced a radical transformation …

[图书][B] Biogeographic atlas of the Southern Ocean

C De Broyer, P Koubbi, H Griffiths, SA Grant - 2014 - core.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

A global synthesis of the marine and terrestrial evidence for glaciation during the Pliocene Epoch

S De Schepper, PL Gibbard, U Salzmann… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The Pliocene climate is globally warm and characterised by high atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, yet the terrestrial and marine scientific communities have gathered …

Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

RH Levy, SR Meyers, TR Naish, NR Golledge… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deep sea geological records indicate that Antarctic ice-sheet growth and decay is strongly
influenced by the Earth's astronomical variations (known as Milankovitch cycles), and that …

The Scotia Arc: genesis, evolution, global significance

IWD Dalziel, LA Lawver, IO Norton… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The Scotia arc is the eastward-closing loop of mountains and locally emergent submarine
ridges extending from the southernmost Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic …