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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.
28 lis 2017 · What the Pliocene epoch can teach us about future warming on Earth. About 3 million years ago, carbon dioxide levels were similar to today’s. What other changes might we expect?
The Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (mPWP) (prior to 2009 known as the Middle Pliocene Warm Period), or the Pliocene Thermal Maximum, was an interval of warm climate during the Pliocene epoch that lasted from 3.3 to 3.0 million years ago (Ma).
Climate. Mid-Pliocene reconstructed annual sea surface temperature anomaly. During the Pliocene epoch (5.3 to 2.6 million years ago (Ma)), the Earth's climate became cooler and drier, as well as more seasonal, marking a transition between the relatively warm Miocene to the cooler Pleistocene. [19]
3 kwi 2013 · About five to four million years ago, in the early Pliocene epoch, Earth had a warm, temperate climate. The gradual cooling that followed led to the establishment of modern temperature...
9 lip 2020 · The Pliocene Epoch (2.588 to 5.3 Ma) was a time when global temperatures were ~3 °C warmer than the pre-industrial 1 and sea level was ~20 m higher than present 2, 3, largely due to the...
