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Geologists produce new timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic climate changes – EurekAlert
MIT geologists have produced a new timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic climate changes. The record shows ancient temperature variations coinciding with shifts in planet’s…
IMAGE: A finger points to a small trilobite fossil from the Ordovician strata in Svalbard, Norway.
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Credit: Adam Jost
CAMBRIDGE — The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth’s temperature during the early Paleozoic era, between 510 and 440 million years ago — a pivotal period when animals became abundant in a previously microbe-dominated world.
In a study appearing today in the Proceedings…
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