Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years

2021/01/12 by Christopher R. Scotese, Haijun Song, Benjamin Mills +2 · 43 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503

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• Carboniferous [wikipedia]
• Jurassic [wikipedia]
• Miocene [wikipedia]
• Permian [wikipedia]