Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?

Cenozoic Climate ^ Oxygen Isotope Evidence

Discoveries of fossil remains of 50 million year old alligators on Ellesmere Island and 30}40 million year-old forests on Antarctica contrast sharply with our present vision of polar climates. These are not isolated discoveries or quirks of nature. An evergrowing body of faunal, Soral, and geochemical evidence shows that the Rrst half of the Cenozoic Era was much warmer than the present time. W...

Pacific Ocean and Cenozoic Evolution of Climate

[1] The Pacific Ocean has played a major role in climate evolution throughout the Cenozoic (65–0 Ma). It is a fundamental component of global heat transport and circulation, the dominant locus of primary productivity, and, consequently, the largest reservoir for carbon exchange between the oceans and the atmosphere. A satisfactory understanding of the Cenozoic evolutionary history of the Pacifi...

Cenozoic climate change influences mammalian evolutionary dynamics.

Global climate change is having profound impacts on the natural world. However, climate influence on faunal dynamics at macroevolutionary scales remains poorly understood. In this paper we investigate the influence of climate over deep time on the diversity patterns of Cenozoic North American mammals. We use factor analysis to identify temporally correlated assemblages of taxa, or major evoluti...

Radiative Forcing of Climate Change

Contributing Authors R. Betts, R. Charlson, C. Chuang, J.S. Daniel, A. Del Genio, R. van Dorland, J. Feichter, J. Fuglestvedt, P.M. de F. Forster, S.J. Ghan, A. Jones, J.T. Kiehl, D. Koch, C. Land, J. Lean, U. Lohmann, K. Minschwaner, J.E. Penner, D.L. Roberts, H. Rodhe, G.J. Roelofs, L.D. Rotstayn, T.L. Schneider, U. Schumann, S.E. Schwartz, M.D. Schwarzkopf, K.P. Shine, S. Smith, D.S. Stevens...

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