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The Pliocene ( / ˈplaɪ.əsiːn, ˈplaɪ.oʊ -/ PLY-ə-seen, PLY-oh-; [6][7] also Pleiocene) [8] is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58 [9] million years ago (Ma). It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
Pliocene Epoch, second of two major worldwide divisions of the Neogene Period, spanning the interval from about 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) and is further subdivided into two ages and their corresponding rock.
15 sie 2011 · The Pliocene Epoch, 5.33–2.58 million years ago (Ma), was a generally warmer and wetter interval with atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations at or slightly above modern levels. This paper provides an overview of Pliocene vegetation, sea surface temperatures and climate modelling outcomes.
The Pliocene Epoch. The picture below shows a modern herd of zebra grazing on an African savanna. Grazing mammals, such as the perissodactyls and artiodactyls diversified in the Miocene and Pliocene as grasslands and savanna spread across most continents.
28 lis 2017 · By simulating the changes that occurred during the warm Pliocene epoch, researchers are trying to predict Earth’s future hundreds of years from now.
3 kwi 2013 · Here we synthesize the available geochemical proxy records of sea surface temperature and show that, compared with that of today, the early Pliocene climate had substantially lower meridional and...
5 sty 2017 · We here present Pliocene Atlantic interhemispheric sea surface temperature and salinity gradients (deduced from foraminiferal Mg/Ca and stable oxygen isotopes, δ 18 O) in combination with a...
