Here we propose a mechanism by which Cenozoic climate change could have caused the rise of the Andes. Based on considerations of the force balance in the South American lithosphere, ...

Late Cenozoic climate cooling biogeographically shifted marine plankton communities Peer-Reviewed Publication. Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Mark Clementz, associate professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, holds the lower jaw of a manatee from which teeth were sampled for stable isotope analysis. By Marlene Cimons, National ...

Scientists used marine fossils and orbital data to recreate 66 million years of climate history. Its shows that climate change is anything but 'normal.' ...

Global cooling and Tibet uplift drove the Cenozoic climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-021-9932-2. Keywords ...

Climate change and its effects looms as one of the great global challenges of our time. ... through most of the cenozoic to the present, after a previous lengthy warming.

In the current study, the authors also found that during the two warm periods of the Cenozoic — the mid-Miocene climate optimum about 16 million years ago and the early Eocene climate optimum about 50 ...

For the Cenozoic period, which began about 70 million years ago and continues today, evidence derived from marine sediments provide a detailed, and fairly continuous, record for climate change.