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Nature Geoscience 1, 294 - 295 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo191

Subject Category: Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography

Palaeoclimatology: A tale of two climates

Katharina Billups1

  1. Katharina Billups is at the College of Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware, 700 Pilottown Road, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA.
    e-mail: kbillups@udel.edu


The generally warm and ice-free conditions of the Eocene epoch rapidly declined to the cold and glaciated state of the Oligocene epoch. Geochemical evidence from deep-sea sediments resolves in detail the climatic events surrounding this transition.

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