Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution
The mid-Pliocene was a global warm period, preceding the onset of Quaternary glaciations. Here we use cosmogenic nuclide dating to show that a fossiliferous terrestrial deposit that includes subfossil trees and the northern-most evidence of Pliocene ice wedge casts in Canada’s High Arctic (Ellesmere...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Nature Pub. Group
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615376/ |