Latitudinal distribution of paleotemperature on land and sea from early Cretaceous to middle Miocene

Paleotemperature data from the of oceans and the continents are summarized for the interval from the early Cretaceous through the middle Miocene. The data are contoured on diagrams of age vs latitude after adjustments for the known occurrences of seasonal ice and for estimated ice volumes. Separate...

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Main Authors: Frakes, Larry A., Probst, Jean-Luc, Ludwig, Wolfgang
Other Authors: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Université Louis Pasteur-Strasbourg I - ULP (FRANCE), University of Adelaïde (AUSTRALIA)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Gauthier-Villars 1994
Subjects:
Sciences de la Terre
Paleoclimatology
Paleo-oceanography
Paleotemperature
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Miocene
Review
Isotherms
Seasonal variations
Sea ice
World ocean
Paleolatitude
Glacial extension
Mesozoic
Tertiary
Neogene
Online Access:http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/3529/
http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/3529/1/Frakes_3529.pdf
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Summary:Paleotemperature data from the of oceans and the continents are summarized for the interval from the early Cretaceous through the middle Miocene. The data are contoured on diagrams of age vs latitude after adjustments for the known occurrences of seasonal ice and for estimated ice volumes. Separate plots for oceans and continents indicate the warmest times for the oceans were the late Paleocene and the late Eocene and the coolest were the early Oligocene and the early Cretaceous. Continents were warmest in the late Cretaceous and the late Eocene and coolest during the early Oligocene and the late Maastrichtian. Oceans were characterized by cooler tropics and warmer higher latitudes than present and continents by strikingly higher temperatures than present over all latitudes

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