Climate simulation of the latest Permian: Implications for mass extinction [PDF]
This report presents the results of climate modeling research which indicates that elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at the end of the Permian period led to climatic conditions inhospitable to both marine and terrestrial life.
Benton +22 more
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Porcupines, Paleogeography, and Parallelism [PDF]
One of the vexing problems of geographic distribution is the explanation of why one suborder of rodents, the Hystricomorpha, is characteristic of South America, the southern parts of Eurasia, and Africa, but does not seem ever to have been present in North America until very recent times.
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THE STUDY OF LAKE ONEGO AND ITS DRAINAGE BASIN PALEOGEOGRAPHY USING A SET OF METHODS
The authors own and literary data on long-term paleogeographical research of Lake Onego and its drainage basin carried out using a set of methods are summarized in the article.
Lyudmila Filimonova, Nadezhda Lavrova
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The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]
The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V. +3 more
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Shallow seamounts at ocean island hotspots and in other settings may record emergence histories in the form of submarine erosional terraces. Exposure histories are valuable for constraining paleo-elevations and sea levels in the absence of more ...
Darin M. Schwartz +3 more
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Astronomically paced changes in overturning circulation in the Western North Atlantic during the middle Eocene [PDF]
North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) currently redistributes heat and salt between Earth’s ocean basins, and plays a vital role in the ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange.
Bickert, Torsten +9 more
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PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF FORTY DIAGNOSTIC SOUTHERN TETHYAN CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE GLOBIGERINID PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA [PDF]
Forty planktic foraminiferal species were erected from ten localities in the Southern Tethys: Tunisia, Egypt, Angola, Tanzania, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Iran, Pakistan, and India.
Haidar Salim Anan
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Evolutionary history and identification of conservation units in the giant otter, Pteronura brasiliensis. [PDF]
The giant otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, occupies a range including the major drainage basins of South America, yet the degree of structure that exists within and among populations inhabiting these drainages is unknown.
Ariani, C. +19 more
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The geological structure of coal formations of the Sukharysh syncline, which is located in the Kopeysk-Bredy subzone of the Alapaevsk-Adamovka structural-formational zone, was studied.
A.V. Snachev
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Environmental and climatic proxies for the Cañadón Asfalto and Neuquén basins (Patagonia, Argentina): review of middle to upper jurassic continental and near coastal sequences [PDF]
In this review, we include several proxies (sedimentology, palynology, invertebrates) from the Cañadón Asfalto and Neuquén basins, to infer the environments and regional climatic context during the Middle to Late Jurassic of Patagonia.
Cabaleri, Nora Graciela +6 more
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