New high-resolution record of middle to late Miocene climate evolution
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 11:41
in Earth & Climate
After the fairly warm Miocene climate optimum about 17-15 million years ago, Earth's climate began to cool. Holbourn et al. present a new high-resolution record of climate evolution over the middle to late Miocene from 12.9 to 8.4 million years ago based on stable isotopes in sedimentary benthic foraminifera in the western Pacific Ocean.
