Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

CL O'Brien, SA Robinson, RD Pancost… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
It is well established that greenhouse conditions prevailed during the Cretaceous Period (~
145–66 Ma). Determining the exact nature of the greenhouse-gas forcing, climatic warming …

The rise and demise of the Paleogene Central Tibetan Valley

Z Xiong, X Liu, L Ding, A Farnsworth, RA Spicer… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Reconstructing the Paleogene topography and climate of central Tibet informs
understanding of collisional tectonic mechanisms and their links to climate and biodiversity …

Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

AA Chiarenza, A Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, 66 Ma, included the demise of non-avian
dinosaurs. Intense debate has focused on the relative roles of Deccan volcanism and the …

Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt, SA Robinson, PJ Valdes… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The East Asian monsoon plays an integral role in human society, yet its geological history
and controlling processes are poorly understood. Using a general circulation model and …

Orographic evolution of northern Tibet shaped vegetation and plant diversity in eastern Asia

SF Li, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth, T Davies-Barnard… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout the past 66 million years has profoundly
affected the Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven …

[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

No high Tibetan plateau until the Neogene

T Su, A Farnsworth, RA Spicer, J Huang, FX Wu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The Late Paleogene surface height and paleoenvironment for the core area of the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remain critically unresolved. Here, we report the discovery of the …

The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse climate

BT Huber, KG MacLeod, DK Watkins… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
A compilation of foraminiferal stable isotope measurements from southern high latitude
(SHL) deep-sea sites provides a novel perspective important for understanding Earth's …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution climate simulation dataset for the past 540 million years

X Li, Y Hu, J Guo, J Lan, Q Lin, X Bao, S Yuan, M Wei… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Phanerozoic Eon has witnessed considerable changes in the climate system
as well as abundant animals and plant life. Therefore, the evolution of the climate system in …