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Near-tropical early eocene terrestrial temperatures at the Australo-Antarctic margin, western Tasmania

Date

Authors

Carpenter, Raymond J.

Jordan, Gregory J.

Macphail, Michael

Hill, Robert S

Publisher

Geological Society of America Inc

Abstract

A worldwide greenhouse warm climate prevailed in the Early Eocene, and nowhere was warming more dramatic than at high latitudes. Sea-surface temperatures of ~34 °C have been estimated for a site at paleolatitude 65°S on the East Tasman Plateau of the so

Keywords

Keywords: Antarctic Peninsula; High Latitudes; Mean annual temperatures; Pacific ocean; Sea surface temperatures; Southern Hemisphere; Tasmania , Australia; Warm climates; Sea level; Estimation; climate variation; Eocene; model test; model validation; paleoclimate;

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61511

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1130/G32584.1

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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