The significance of a polar opposite for understanding Earth's climate
In early 2017, an international research team made an unexpected discovery beneath the Antarctic ice: Traces of rainforests near the South Pole. In a sediment core, our team unearthed pristinely preserved forest soil from the late Cretaceous greenhouse world, including a dense network of fossil root...
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54939/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.05a4a683-8277-4290-bd17-d2198676ca16 |
| Summary: | In early 2017, an international research team made an unexpected discovery beneath the Antarctic ice: Traces of rainforests near the South Pole. In a sediment core, our team unearthed pristinely preserved forest soil from the late Cretaceous greenhouse world, including a dense network of fossil roots and a high diversity of Cretaceous pollen and spores. Our study uniquely illustrates yet unexpected potencies of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and also quite clearly reveals the significance of ice sheet presence for global climate stability. |
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