Evidence of a Cooler Continental Climate in East China during the Warm Early Cenozoic.

The early Cenozoic was characterized by a very warm climate especially during the Early Eocene. To understand climatic changes in eastern Asia, we reconstructed the Early Eocene vegetation and climate based on palynological data of a borehole from Wutu coal mine, East China and evaluated the climati...

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Main Authors: Qian-Qian Zhang, Thierry Smith, Jian Yang, Cheng-Sen Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4873231?pdf=render