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The Late Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch that lasted from 11.63 to 5.333 million years ago. It includes the Tortonian and Messinian stages, and marks the divergence of hominins from other apes.
26 wrz 2016 · During the late Miocene epoch, about seven million years ago, large areas of the continents experienced drying, enhanced seasonality, and a restructuring of terrestrial plant and animal...
During the late Miocene, the connections between the Atlantic and Mediterranean closed, causing the Mediterranean Sea to almost completely evaporate. This event is referred to as the “ Messinian salinity crisis ”.
18 paź 2021 · During the Miocene, major global cooling occurred during two intervals: the middle Miocene (∼14–13 Ma) and the late Miocene (∼7-6 Ma). The Antarctic Ice Sheet expanded substantially at ∼14–13 Ma, and glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere was initiated at ∼7–6 Ma.
25 lip 2022 · Earth’s climate cooled markedly during the late Miocene from 12 to 5 million years ago, with far-reaching consequences for global ecosystems. However, the driving forces of these changes remain...
1 cze 2021 · The largest megalake in the geological record formed in Eurasia during the late Miocene, when the epicontinental Paratethys Sea became tectonically-trapped and disconnected from the global ocean.
23 gru 2020 · Changing climate in the late Miocene coincided with fundamental changes in the distribution and seasonality of monsoonal precipitation over Southeast Asia, suggesting a concurrent southward shift in the average summer position of the ITCZ in the northern hemisphere at ∼7 Ma (Holbourn et al., 2018).
