Spanning more than 66 million years, the Cenozoic Era shaped the world we live in today. From the rise of mammals to the ...

ever, that changes in geography are insufficient to account for general climatic cooling during the late Neogene time. A trend of decreasing atmospheric CO 2 is the most likely cause of long-term ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, these living structures helped guide how Earth recovered from major climate ...

Fossil phytoliths from a 40 million-year-old soil from the Sarmiento Formation, Gran Barranca, Chubut, Argentina. Center is an epidermal phytolith indicative of open habitats. Scale bar = 10 ...

Deep-sea sediment deposits and properties controlled by currents / Ian Nicholas McCave -- Continuous physical properties of cored marine sediments / Guillaume St.-Onge ... [et al.] -- Magnetic ...

purely terrestrial hypothesis links each first-order immigration episode to wholesale reorganization of the continental ecosystem triggered by climatic shifts. Two major contradictions to the first ...