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Article: Northern high latitude terrestrial climate during the Eocene to Oligocene interval - a critical period in Earth's history.
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- June 15, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 2009-National Oceanography Centre: Northern high latitude terrestrial climate during the Eocene to Oligocene interval - a critical period in Earth's history(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
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An analysis of plant spores and pollen in archived sediment cores collected from the deep sea reveals for the first time the climate, and especially climate seasonality in northern high latitudes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition around 33.5 million years ago.The findings, which are published in Nature this week, provide a better understanding of the timing of the inception and causative factors behind initiation of Northern ...
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