… Cretaceous Period is of particular interest in order to understand drivers of past greenhouse
… and spreads towards the tropics, leading to an enhanced greenhouse effect. This process is …

… thermostat with just three settings, which correspond to different conditions and temperature
regimes. When set on ‘greenhouse’, our world is ice-free and tropical … the Cretaceous Period …

… Life itself is a global thermostat, as well as the source of all of … Or, as I discuss in chapter
18, if the Cretaceous extinctions had … that the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn are …

… of global climate system variability under greenhouse warming conditions, as well as internal
… Kansas, as well as time equivalent units of the Tropic Shale in southern Utah and Arizona, …

… Testing the Cretaceous greenhouse hypothesis using glassy foraminiferal calcite from
the core of the Turonian tropics on Demerara Rise. Geology, 30(7), 607-610. doi: doi.org/10.1130/…

… Here, we evaluate the marine coarse siliciclastic response to early Paleogene hothouse
climatic and oceanographic conditions. We compile an inventory of documented sand-rich (…

… tropical SSTs of 33.8 to 38.6 C occur at the start of our compilation in the Late Cretaceous
(95% … measurements for 98% of tropical δ 18 O data, 95% of high-latitude δ 18 O data, 88% of …

… greenhouse effect to make surface ice melt in the tropics until a band of permanently ice-free
land and water developed (this would be darker than the ice, and thus absorb more energy …

… Cretaceous greenhouse climate records in continental strata and better understand the impact
of the Early Cretaceous … of the Turonian tropics on Demerara Rise. Geology 30, 607-610. …

… , carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, and we might … American South during the
Cretaceous Period. Sea creatures … Then, in 539 or 540 CE, another eruption from a tropical …