Pliocene climates: the nature of the problem

TJ Crowley - Marine Micropaleontology, 1996 - Elsevier
… The Pliocene data base is sufficiently complete to provide a valuable test for climate model …
for the origin of Pliocene warmth. There are two main factors cited to explain Pliocene warmth-…

Climate and environment of a Pliocene warm world

U Salzmann, M Williams, AM Haywood… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Pliocene vegetation, sea surface temperatures and climate modelling outcomes. Most
prominent changes in Pliocene … We will finally use the overview of global Pliocene environments …

Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

AM Haywood, DJ Hill, AM Dolan… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
… the Pliocene are clearly evident, we show substantial variation in the sensitivity of models to
the implementation of Pliocene … ploring the known unknowns in modelling Pliocene climate …

Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth

AV Fedorov, CM Brierley, KT Lawrence, Z Liu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… Then we evaluate various explanations for early Pliocene climate with respect to these … the
Pliocene and the present, and dramatically increased our understanding of Pliocene climate. …

The Pliocene-Pleistocence Boundary

E Aguirre, G Pasini - Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 1985 - episodes.org
… I いち Continental sediments (Pleistocene and Holocene), 2 いち Sediments of upper
Pleistocene marine terraces, 3 いち middle to upper Pliocene and lower Pleistocene …

Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia

S Semaw, SW Simpson, J Quade, PR Renne, RF Butler… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Pliocene hominid evolution is rare and limited to a few sites in Ethiopia 3,4,5 , Kenya 6 and
Chad 7 . Here we report new Early Pliocene … that the Early Pliocene As Duma sediments …

The base of the Zanclean Stage and of the Pliocene Series

JA Van Couvering, D Castradori, MB Cita… - Episodes Journal of …, 2000 - episodes.org
The ratification by IUGS of the recently defined base of the Zanclean Stage and of the
Pliocene Series brings years of controversy to an end. The boundary-stratotype of the stage is …

Pliocene sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic Ocean at 3.0 Ma

HJ Dowsett, RZ Poore - Quaternary Science Reviews, 1991 - Elsevier
… We selected the Pliocene for study for several reasons. Previous work indicates that the
Pliocene … The Pliocene also represents an important transition from a climate regime with high-…

Pliocene to Pleistocene palynoflora and vegetation in Italy: state of the art

A Bertini - Quaternary International, 2010 - Elsevier
Fifty-four Italian pollen sites, spanning the last 5.3 Ma, have been the object of an updated
synthesis. The chronostratigraphic framework of floral and vegetational events illustrates the …

The Gelasian Stage (Upper Pliocene): A new unit of the global standard chronostratigraphic scale

D Rio, R Sprovieri, D Castradori… - Episodes Journal of …, 1998 - episodes.org
The Gelasian has been formally accepted as third (and uppermost) subdivision of the
Pliocene Series, thus representing the Upper Pliocene. The Global Standard Stratotype-section …