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

• Published in: Geology
• 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
• Subjects: Keywords: Antarctic Peninsula; High Latitudes; Mean annual temperatures; Pacific ocean; Sea surface temperatures; Southern Hemisphere; Tasmania; Australia; Warm climates; Sea level; Estimation; climate variation; Eocene; model test; model validation; paleoclimate; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61511; https://doi.org/10.1130/G32584.1; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/61511/5/f5625xPUB617_2012.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/61511/7/01_Carpenter_Near-tropical_early_eocene_2012.pdf.jpg

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