The Early Pliocene global expansion of C4 grasslands: A new organic carbon-isotopic dataset from the north China plain

2019/11/08 by Jiayi Lu, Thomas J. Algeo, Guangsheng Zhuang +5 · 20 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Aridification #Carbon cycle #Climate change #Climatology #Earth science #Ecology #Ecosystem #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geography #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Global cooling #Grassland #Isotopes of carbon #Late Miocene #Loess #Northern Hemisphere #Oceanography #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Physical geography #Stable isotope ratio #Structural basin #Total organic carbon #δ13C

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109454

published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 538, 109454 (Elsevier BV)

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