Persistent Near–Tropical Warmth on the Antarctic Continent During the Early Eocene Epoch

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Pross, Jörg, Contreras, Lineth, Bijl, Peter K., Greenwood, David R., Bohaty, Steven M., Schouten, Stefan, Bendle, James A., Röhl, Ursula, Tauxe, Lisa, Raine, J. Ian, Huck, Claire E., Van De Flierdt, Tina, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Stickley, Catherine E., Van De Schootbrugge, Bas, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk, Escutia Dotti, Carlota, Klaus, Adam, Fehr, Annick, Williams, Trevor, Bendle, James A.P., Carr, Stephanie A., Dunbar, Robert B., Gonzèlez, Jhon J., Hayden, Travis G., Iwai, Masao, Jimenez Espejo, Francisco J., Katsuki, Kota, Soo Kong, Gee
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Montclair State University Digital Commons 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/471; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11300

The warmest global climates of the past 65 million years occurred during the early Eocene epoch (about 55 to 48 million years ago), when the Equator–to–pole temperature gradients were much smaller than today and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were in excess of one thousand parts per million by vo...