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SUBMITTER: Sniderman JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4776468 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sniderman J M Kale JM Woodhead Jon D JD Hellstrom John J Jordan Gregory J GJ Drysdale Russell N RN Tyler Jonathan J JJ Porch Nicholas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160208 8
The Pliocene epoch (5.3-2.6 Ma) represents the most recent geological interval in which global temperatures were several degrees warmer than today and is therefore considered our best analog for a future anthropogenic greenhouse world. However, our understanding of Pliocene climates is limited by poor age control on existing terrestrial climate archives, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, and by persistent disagreement between paleo-data and models concerning the magnitude of regional warmin ...[more]