• DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-2148-5
Corpus ID: 214736648

Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

@article{Klages2020TemperateRN,
  title={Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth},
  author={J. P. Klages and U. Salzmann and T. Bickert and C. Hillenbrand and K. Gohl and G. Kuhn and S. M. Bohaty and J. Titschack and J. M{\"u}ller and Thomas Frederichs and Thorsten Bauersachs and W. Ehrmann and Tina van de Flierdt and P. S. Pereira and R. Larter and G. Lohmann and Igor Niezgodzki and G. Uenzelmann-Neben and Maximilian Zundel and C. Spiegel and C. Mark and D. Chew and J. Francis and G. Nehrke and Florian Schwarz and J. K. Smith and Tim Freudenthal and O. Esper and H. P{\"a}like and T. Ronge and Ricarda Dziadek and V. J. E. B. C. K. K. Y. F. M. Afanasyeva Arndt Ebermann Gebhardt Hochmuth K{\"u}ssne and V. Afanasyeva and J. E. Arndt and B. Ebermann and C. Gebhardt and K. Hochmuth and K. K{\"u}ssner and Y. Najman and F. Riefstahl and M. Scheinert},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2020},
  volume={580},
  pages={81-86}
}

J. P. Klages, U. Salzmann, +38 authors M. Scheinert

Published 2020

Geology, Medicine

Nature

The mid-Cretaceous period was one of the warmest intervals of the past 140 million years 1 – 5 , driven by atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 1,000 parts per million by volume 6 . In the near absence of proximal geological records from south of the Antarctic Circle, it is disputed whether polar ice could exist under such environmental conditions. Here we use a sedimentary sequence recovered from the West Antarctic shelf—the southernmost Cretaceous record reported so far—and show that a… CONTINUE READING

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