the Pliocene may have accelerated on the disappearance of forests and the spread of grasslands and savannas. During the Pliocene the earth climate system...

Middle Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP), also known as the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period or the Pliocene Thermal Maximum, was an interval of warm climate during...

The list of periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events...

Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries...

developed out of more stable conditions in the Miocene and Pliocene climate. Holocene climate has been relatively stable. All of these changes complicate...

analogous climate to the projected climate of the near future as a result of anthropogenic global warming. Towards the end of the Pliocene, decreased...

California. University of California. "Pliocene". University of California. Adams, Jonathan. "Pliocene climate". Oak Ridge National Library. Archived...

basins, draining most of northern Spain during the Neogene and perhaps Pliocene. Climate change and erosion of the Catalan coastal mountains, as well as deposition...

of California. "Pliocene". University of California. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Jonathan Adams. "Pliocene climate". Oak Ridge National...

international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma and 2.588 ± 0.005 Ma (million...

of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in the Bovini tribe: The cold Pliocene climate caused an extension of open grassland, which enabled the evolution...

of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications...

considerably more, resulting in a net warming of the ocean. In climate simulations of the Pliocene, this net warming is then transported by ocean currents and...

The paleo-climate of the Snake River Plain in southern Idaho, U.S., was much wetter and milder than today’s climate. During the Pliocene, the presence...

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an...

model dependency of the simulated Greenland Ice Sheet in the mid-Pliocene". Climate of the Past. 11 (3): 369–381. Bibcode:2015CliPa..11..369K. doi:10...

plicodenta (Asia, Pliocene) †Ochotona polonica (Europe: Poland, Germany, France, Pliocene) small-sized forms †Ochotona bazarovi (Asia, upper Pliocene) †Ochotona...

doi:10.7202/008301ar. Lisiecki, Lorraine E.; Raymo, Maureen E. (2005). "A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records". Paleoceanography...

Climate sensitivity is a key measure in climate science and describes how much Earth's surface will warm for a doubling in the atmospheric carbon dioxide...

model dependency of the simulated Greenland Ice Sheet in the mid-Pliocene". Climate of the Past. 11 (3): 369–381. Bibcode:2015CliPa..11..369K. doi:10...

making landfall on the Islands is subject to change as the climate warms. In the Pliocene era, where CO2 levels were comparable to those we see today...

Early Pliocene to Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene of Africa, Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of North America) †Pachycrocuta (Pliocene and Pleistocene...

The Saga of Pliocene Exile (or the Saga of the Exiles) is a series of science / speculative fiction books by Julian May, first published in the early 1980s...

Carboniferous rainforest collapse, occurred at the end of the period, caused by climate change. The development of a Carboniferous chronostratigraphic timescale...

Sea with layers of deposits from the Cretaceous, Palaeogene, Neogene, Pliocene and Quaternary periods. The lithological composition up to the Neogene...

Quaternary) divided the Tertiary Epoch into the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and New Pliocene (Holocene) Periods in 1833. British geologist John Phillips proposed...

In climate science, a tipping point is a critical threshold that, when crossed, leads to large, accelerating and often irreversible changes in the climate...

continued since. Nevis is a volcanic island that began its formation in mid-Pliocene times (approximately 3.45 million years ago). However, the island comprises...

Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of WC North America) – formerly Miocorax; Nannopterum? Phalacrocorax sp. (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, US)...

Antarctic glaciation. Decreasing carbon dioxide levels during the late Pliocene may have contributed substantially to global cooling and the onset of Northern...