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Nature 359, 117-122 (10 September 1992) | doi:10.1038/359117a0
Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate
M. E. Raymo & W. F. Ruddiman
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Abstract
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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