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 …

Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however,
assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations …

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 …

During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM),∼ 56 Mya, thousands of
petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant …

Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

The rate of CO 2 assimilation by plants is directly influenced by the concentration of CO 2 in
the atmosphere, ca. As an environmental variable, ca also has a unique global and historic …

The relation between the partial pressure of atmospheric carbon dioxide (p CO2) and
Paleogene climate is poorly resolved. We used stable carbon isotopic values of di …

The term" carbon cycle" is normally thought to mean those processes that govern the
present-day transfer of carbon between life, the atmosphere, and the oceans. This book …

The global climate system experienced a series of drastic changes during the Cenozoic. In
Asia, these include the climate transformation from a zonal pattern to a monsoon-dominated …

Recent studies have purported to show a closer correspondence between reconstructed
Phanerozoic records of cosmic ray flux and temperature than between CO2 and …