#pliocene — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
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Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

Centrolene kutuku: A New #Glassfrog of the Genus Centrolene from the Subandean Kutukú Cordillera, eastern Ecuador https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/centrolene.html #Frogs #Frog #Animals

"The #NewSpecies is sister to Centrolene camposi from the #WesternCordillera of the #Andes of southwestern #Ecuador, and together they form a clade with C. condor from the Subandean Cóndor #Cordillera in southeastern Ecuador... the new species originated at the end of the #Pliocene."

My art in 2023 (12/12)

December: The Zanclean Flood. 6 million years ago, the movement of the continents cut the Mediterranean off from the oceans. Since more water evaporates from the Mediterranean than it receives from rivers, this resulted in the sea drying up and becoming an incredibly deep, dry, salty lowland. Until 5.3 million years ago, when the Strait of Gibraltar formed and the entire sea was refilled in a massive flood.

#MyArt #Neogene #Pliocene #ZancleanFlood #paleoart #MyArtIn2023

A day after an earthquake caused a landslide that allowed the ocean to start flooding into the great dry abyss to the east,the water's power violently widens the gap and now a thousand Amazons flood into what will soon be the Mediterranean Sea again. The local animals have come to a large rock that will one day be named Gibraltar for safety and a view. Except the #Pelagornis, they're more interested in the fish falling down.

#ZancleanFlood #Pliocene #Miocene #Neogene #waterfall #paleoart #MyArt

"Researchers have created a #map of oceanic " #deadzones " that existed during the #Pliocene epoch, when the Earth's #climate was two to three degrees warmer than it is now. The work could provide a glimpse into the locations and potential impacts of future low oxygen zones in a warmer Earth's oceans."

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ancient-ocean-dead-zones-future.html#!

#Pliocene-Like #Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier. https://bit.ly/3VkuoFW #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #CO2

@triptychphrases
Hi Tripti!

I really liked your #paleoclimate #hothouse #climatechange analog paper. #drought #extremes #pliocene

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022AV000757

Now… I need some help working over some of my dust-gathering for-just-me-I-guess Miocene simulations. Hope you come down and visit NYC soon.