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Ancient plant communities and climates across Earth's most recent major global warming event

Alexander Lowe - Research Scientist, Museum of Paleontology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project reconstructs plant communities and climate using fossil plants from sites representing 30 to 10 million years ago. During this time, there are well documented global climatic changes happening, including a global warming event (Miocene Climatic Optimum) and a global cooling event (the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition). This study...

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