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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Main Authors: Rybczynski, Natalia, Gosse, John C., Richard Harington, C., Wogelius, Roy A., Hidy, Alan J., Buckley, Mike
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615376/