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- Title
Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs.
- Authors
Pearson, Paul N.; Ditchfield, Peter W.; Singano, Joyce; Harcourt-Brown, Katherine G.; Nicholas, Christopher J.; Olsson, Richard K.; Shackleton, Nicholas J.; Hall, Mike A.
- Abstract
Provides data disproving the so-called cool tropics paradox or the paleodata-based assumption of cool tropical temperatures during supposed greenhouse episodes in ancient climates. Attribution of the paradox to poor preservation and diagenetic alteration; Reinforcement of the climate model prediction that global warming heats up the tropics.
- Subjects
TROPICS; GLOBAL warming; GREENHOUSE effect; PALEOTHERMOMETRY
- Publication
Nature, 2001, Vol 413, Issue 6855, p481
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/35097000