Nature 359, 117 - 122 (10 September 1992); doi:10.1038/359117a0

Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate

M. E. Raymo & W. F. Ruddiman

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA.

Global cooling in the Cenozoic, which led to the growth of large continental ice sheets in both hemispheres, may have been caused by the uplift of the Tibetan plateau and the positive feedbacks initiated by this event. In particular, tectonically driven increases in chemical weathering may have resulted in a decrease of atmospheric C0₂ concentration over the past 40 Myr.

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