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Late Miocene megalake regressions in Eurasia. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
AbstractThe largest megalake in the geological record formed in Eurasia during the late Miocene, when the epicontinental Paratethys Sea became tectonically-trapped and disconnected from the global ocean. The megalake was characterized by several episodes of hydrological instability and partial desiccation, but the chronology, magnitude and impacts of ...
Palcu DV, Patina IS, Șandric I, Lazarev S, Vasiliev I, Stoica M, Krijgsman W.   +6 more
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Global climate forcing on late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2023
Wind-blown dust from southern South America links the terrestrial, marine, atmospheric, and biological components of Earth’s climate system. The Pampas of central Argentina (~33°–39° S) contain a Miocene to Holocene aeolian record that spans an important
Blake Stubbins, Andrew L. Leier, David L. Barbeau, Alex Pullen, Jordan T. Abell, Junsheng Nie, Marcelo A. Zárate, Mary Kate Fidler   +7 more
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Molecular phylogeny of mega-diverse Carabus attests late Miocene evolution of alpine environments in the Himalayan–Tibetan Orogen [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
The timing, sequence, and scale of uplift of the Himalayan–Tibetan Orogen (HTO) are controversially debated. Many geoscientific studies assume paleoelevations close to present-day elevations and the existence of alpine environments across the HTO already
Joachim Schmidt, Lars Opgenoorth, Kangshan Mao, Chitra B. Baniya, Sylvia Hofmann   +4 more
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Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Understanding deep-time marine biodiversity change under the combined effects of climate and connectivity changes is fundamental for predicting the impacts of modern climate change in semi-enclosed seas. We quantify the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene [11.63 to 3.6 million years (Ma)] taxonomic diversity of the Mediterranean Sea for calcareous ...
Agiadi K, Hohmann N, Gliozzi E, Thivaiou D, Bosellini FR, Taviani M, Bianucci G, Collareta A, Londeix L, Faranda C, Bulian F, Koskeridou E, Lozar F, Mancini AM, Dominici S, Moissette P, Campos IB, Borghi E, Iliopoulos G, Antonarakou A, Kontakiotis G, Besiou E, Zarkogiannis SD, Harzhauser M, Sierro FJ, Coll M, Vasiliev I, Camerlenghi A, García-Castellanos D.   +28 more
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Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Late Miocene climate evolution provides an opportunity to assess Earth’s climate sensitivity to carbon cycle perturbation under warmer-than-modern conditions. Despite its relevance for understanding the climate system, the driving mechanisms underlying profound climate and carbon cycle changes – including the enigmatic Late Miocene cooling from 7 to 5 ...
Zhong Y, Li Z, Shi X, Isson T, Yu J, Kender S, Liang Z, Swann GEA, Pullen A, Weber ME, Du J, Larrasoaña JC, Zhang J, Song Y, González FJ, Kaboth-Bahr S, Li H, Zhang Q, Zhao D, Cao W, Zhao M, Liu Q.   +21 more
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Vegetation feedbacks accelerated the late Miocene climate transition. [PDF]

Sci Adv
The late Miocene was an important stage for the formation of modern-like ecological and environmental patterns. Proxy data from the middle to late Miocene reveal that large-scale cooling and drying occurred; however, the reasons for this climate transition remain unclear.
Zhang R, Guo J, Bradshaw CD, Xu X, Shen T, Li S, Nie J, Zhang C, Li X, Liu Z, Zhang J, Jiang D, Hu Y, Sun J.   +13 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

?Amphictis (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Belgrade Formation of North Carolina, USA [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Miocene terrestrial mammals are poorly known from the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Fossils of the Order Carnivora from this time and region are especially rare.
Jon Baskin, Edwin Dickinson, John DuBois, Henry Galiano, Adam Hartstone-Rose   +4 more
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The relative roles of CO₂ and palaeogeography in determining late Miocene climate: results from a terrestrial model–data comparison [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2012
The late Miocene palaeorecord provides evidence for a warmer and wetter climate than that of today, and there is uncertainty in the palaeo-CO2 record of at least 200 ppm.
A. M. Haywood, J. T. Eronen, M. J. Pound, U. Salzmann, R. Flecker, D. J. Lunt, C. D. Bradshaw   +6 more
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Stratigraphic sequence characteristics and geochronology research progress of the Cenozoic in the arcuate tectonic belt on the northeastern margin of the Tibet Plateau

Dizhi lixue xuebao, 2023
The Cenozoic tectonic deformation and sedimentary processes in the arcuate tectonic belt along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau have been influenced by the remote effect of the subduction of the Pacific Plate as well as controlled by the ...
DONG Xiaopeng, LI Zhenhong, JING Xianghui, CUI Jiawei, HUANG Ting, KOU Linlin   +5 more
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LATE-MIOCENE MOLDAVIAN PETRIFIED FOREST

Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 2022
A collection of petrified wood, hosted by the Natural Sciences Section of the Museum “Vasile Pârvan” from Bârlad, was submitted to a palaeoxylotomical study. The samples come from the central part of Moldova, Northward of Bârlad, and were collected from Simila gravel-quarry, from fluvial-deltaic sediments of Maeotian age, most probably representing ...
Iamandei, Stănilă, Iamandei, Eugenia, Ursachi, Laurențiu   +2 more
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