Near-tropical early eocene terrestrial temperatures at the Australo-Antarctic margin, western Tasmania

A worldwide greenhouse warm climate prevailed in the Early Eocene, and nowhere was warming more dramatic than at high latitudes. Sea-surface temperatures of ~34 °C have been estimated for a site at paleolatitude 65°S on the East Tasman Plateau of the so

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carpenter, Raymond J., Jordan, Gregory J., Macphail, Michael, Hill, Robert S
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Geological Society of America Inc 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61511
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Summary:A worldwide greenhouse warm climate prevailed in the Early Eocene, and nowhere was warming more dramatic than at high latitudes. Sea-surface temperatures of ~34 °C have been estimated for a site at paleolatitude 65°S on the East Tasman Plateau of the so