Around 55 million years ago, Earth experienced one of the warmest climates in its history. This period, known as the early ...

Due to the impact of global warming, it has become essential to understand the causes and processes involved in past climate changes. One of the most prominent events in Earth's climatic evolution was ...

A search for ancient deposits of sandy material expected at continental margins has come up empty. This prominent geological gap hints at poorly understood, powerful, global-scale erosion processes, ...

Rincon, D. A., Arenas, J. E., Cuartas, C. H., Cardenas, A. L., Molinares, C. E., Caicedo, C., and Jaramillo, C. 2007. "Eocene-Pliocene planktonic foraminifera ...

The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history. The analysis of ...

Scientists trace the source of May’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, to a continuous northward motion of the Indian tectonic plate, the same tectonic energy pushing the Himalayas to ...

Wing, Scott L. and Greenwood, D. R. 1993. "Fossils and Fossil Climate - the Case for Equable Continental Interiors in the Eocene." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, ...

Fossils unearthed in Gujarat, India, reveal an exceptionally large snake from the Eocene era, approximately 47 million years ...