Stratigraphy of a middle Miocene neotropical Lagerstätte (La Venta Site, Colombia)

L Mora-Rojas, A Cárdenas, C Jaramillo, D Silvestro… - Geodiversitas, 2023 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The middle Miocene Konzentrat-Lagerstätte of the La Venta site recorded in the
Honda Group contains invaluable information on the biotic response to the climatic changes …

Neogene history of the Amazonian flora: a perspective based on geological, palynological, and molecular phylogenetic data

C Hoorn, LG Lohmann, LM Boschman… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The Amazon hosts one of the largest and richest rainforests in the world, but its origins
remain debated. Growing evidence suggests that geodiversity and geological history played …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclic sediment deposition by orbital forcing in the Miocene wetland of western Amazonia? New insights from a multidisciplinary approach

C Hoorn, T Kukla, G Bogotá-Angel… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the Miocene, a large wetland system extended from the Andean foothills into western
Amazonia. This system has no modern analogue and the driving mechanisms are not yet …

[HTML][HTML] The late Cenozoic evolution of the Humboldt Current System in coastal Peru: Insights from neodymium isotopes

S Kiel, M Jakubowicz, A Altamirano, Z Belka… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Humboldt Current System along the Pacific coast of South America creates one
of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. To trace the origin of the water masses in this …

Global warming drove the Mid-Miocene climate humidification in the northern Tibetan Plateau

AA Khan, J Zan, X Fang, W Zhang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Miocene is a key transitional period for the Asian monsoon evolution and establishment
of modern-like geomorphic landscapes in the northern Tibetan Plateau. Elucidating the …

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

G Coletti, L Commissario, L Mariani… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and forty‐four published successions of shallow‐water carbonates, deposited
between the Palaeocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalayas, have been re …

Role of climate and tectonism on the modernization of Patagonian floras: evidence from the fossil record

VD Barreda, L Palazzesi - Global and Planetary Change, 2021 - Elsevier
A major reorganization of Patagonian ecosystems occurred when permanent ice sheets
appeared in Antarctica and the Andean Range uplifted in southern South America. Rich …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape evolution in the southern Transantarctic Mountains during the early Miocene (c. 20–17 Ma) and evidence for a highly dynamic East Antarctic Ice …

JL Smellie, KS Panter, WC McIntosh, KJ Licht - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Observations of ice sheet stability in Antarctica in the past, during significantly warmer
climatic periods than today, are hampered by a paucity of continental outcrops but they are …

Coordination of intertracheid pit traits and climate effects among cycads

YK Pang, LL Qin, TH Zhang, JY Lei… - Physiologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interconduit pit membranes, which are permeable regions in the primary cell wall that
connect to adjacent conduits, play a crucial role in water relations and the movement of …

The Late Miocene‐Early Pliocene Biogenic Bloom: An Integrated Study in the Tasman Sea

ME Gastaldello, C Agnini, T Westerhold… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Late Miocene‐Early Pliocene Biogenic Bloom (∼ 9–3.5 Ma) was a
paleoceanographic phenomenon defined by anomalously high accumulations of biological …