[HTML][HTML] Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum

AJ Krause, A Sluijs, R Van der Ploeg, TM Lenton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (around 40 million years ago) was a roughly
400,000-year-long global warming phase associated with an increase in atmospheric CO2 …

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Cretaceous climates: Mapping paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies

L Burgener, E Hyland, BJ Reich, C Scotese - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 Ma) was a prolonged warmhouse to hothouse
period characterized by high atmospheric CO 2 conditions, elevated surface temperatures …

Global and zonal‐mean hydrological response to early Eocene warmth

MJ Cramwinckel, NJ Burls, AA Fahad… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's hydrological cycle is expected to intensify in response to global warming, with a “wet‐
gets‐wetter, dry‐gets‐drier” response anticipated over the ocean. Subtropical regions (∼ …

Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities

A Woodhouse, A Swain, WF Fagan, AJ Fraass… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of paleogeographic changes and CO2 variability on northern mid-latitudinal temperature gradients in the Cretaceous

K Gianchandani, S Maor, O Adam, A Farnsworth… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Cretaceous 'greenhouse'period (~ 145 to~ 66 million years ago, Ma) in Earth's
history is relatively well documented by multiple paleoproxy records, which indicate that the …

Southward migration of the monsoonal rainbelt hinders paleosol development and preservation in north-central China dunefield after the Middle-Late Holocene …

P Shu, S Kang, Z Shi, DA Grimley, Z Zhang… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM), including the intensity and range limits of it's associated
rainfall belt, is relevant to ecosystems, agriculture, natural hazards and water availability for …

[HTML][HTML] Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes

R Marasco, M Fusi, C Coscolín, A Barozzi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and
compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoclimate data provide constraints on climate models' large-scale response to past CO2 changes

DJ Lunt, BL Otto-Bliesner, C Brierley… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The paleoclimate record provides a test-bed in which climate models can be evaluated
under conditions of substantial CO2 change; however, these data are typically under-used …

The Cretaceous World: Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoclimate

CR Scotese, C Vérard, L Burgener… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The tectonics, geography, and climate of the Cretaceous world was a very different from the
modern world. At the start of the Cretaceous, the supercontinent of Pangea had just begun to …