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Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Climate and environments of the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.264 to 3.025 Ma) have been extensively studied. Whilst numerical models have shed light on the nature of climate at the time, uncertainties in their predictions have not been systematically ...
Otto-Bliesner, Bette   +123 more
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Diversity, stratigraphy and ecology of diatoms and plant pollen in the Miocene-Pliocene sediments of the Vitim Plateau (Baikal region, Russia)

open access: yesActa Biologica Sibirica, 2023
We performed lithogeochemical and biostratigraphical studies of the core from the hole 8182 in the Northern paleovalley of Vitim Plateau. According to lithogeochemical characteristics of the sediments in the section, 5 members were found out. Three lower
Мarina Usoltseva   +7 more
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Prospalax priscus jaw from the site of Węże 2 (southern Poland, Pliocene)

open access: yesGeologija, 2023
The ecology and adaptations of the Anomalomyidae (Muroidea) have been long debated in the scientific literature. A jaw belonging to Prospalax priscus (Anomalomyidae) was found at the Late Pliocene site of Węże 2 in southern Poland.
Michał Czernielewski
doaj   +1 more source

IDENTIFYING UPPER MIOCENE – LOWER PLIOCENE LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS IN DRY TUNKA BASIN OF THE BAIKAL RIFT ZONE

open access: yesГеодинамика и тектонофизика, 2020
We present results of lithogeochemical, diatomic and palynological studies of sediments from the Tunka-13 well that was drilled in the southeastern part of dry Tunka basin in the Baikal rift zone.
A. Hassan   +6 more
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On the importance of moisture conveyor belts from the tropical eastern Pacific for wetter conditions in the Atacama Desert during the mid-Pliocene [PDF]

open access: yesClimate of the Past, 2023
Geomorphic and sedimentologic data indicate that the climate of today's hyper-arid Atacama Desert (northern Chile) was more humid during the mid-Pliocene to Late Pliocene.
M. Reyers   +7 more
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Pliocene climate and seasonality in North Atlantic shelf seas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper reviews North Atlantic shelf seas palaeoclimate during the interval 4–3Ma, prior to and incorporating the ‘Mid-Pliocene warm period’ (ca 3.29–2.97Ma).
Zalasiewicz, J.   +32 more
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GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL TRANSECT OF THE MIDDLE TIEN SHAN ACROSS THE NARYN AND ATBASHI DEPRESSIONS

open access: yesГеодинамика и тектонофизика, 2022
The article presents the results of integrated geological and geophysical research works dealt with detailed magnetotelluric (MT) sounding and the study of the morphology and spatial position of the sedimentary cover and basement structures along the key
E. S. Przhiyalgovskii   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Invertebrate Life of New Zealand: A Phylogeographic Approach

open access: yesInsects, 2011
Phylogeography contributes to our knowledge of regional biotas by integrating spatial and genetic information. In New Zealand, comprising two main islands and hundreds of smaller ones, phylogeography has transformed the way we view our biology and ...
Mary Morgan-Richards   +2 more
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A complete skull of Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Spanish Pliocene site of La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel)

open access: yesEstudios Geologicos, 2006
Describimos un cráneo prácticamente completo y bien preservado de la hiena cazadora del Plioceno, Chasmaporthetes lunensis, proveniente de La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel).
M. Antón   +3 more
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The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) Phase 2:scientific objectives and experimental design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) is a co-ordinated international climate modelling initiative to study and understand climate and environments of the Late Pliocene, as well as their potential relevance in the context of future climate
Hunter, Stephen   +59 more
core   +1 more source

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