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Warmth and glaciation

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The gradual expansion of Northern Hemisphere glaciation about 3.6 million years ago followed a period of prolonged warmth. An analysis of ancient sea surface temperatures fuels the debate surrounding the roles of atmospheric carbon dioxide and global circulation in the cooling.

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Figure 1: Climate change over the past 5 million years.

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  1. Ana Christina Ravelo is at the Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. acr@ucsc.edu,

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Ravelo, A. Warmth and glaciation. Nature Geosci 3, 672–674 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo965

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