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Though small in size, calcareous (calcium carbonate) microfossils reveal volumes about geologic time, events, processes, and past climate. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has the capability to provide signifi cant scientifi c information based on microfossils that can be used to help resolve issues raised in many other disciplines.
Paleobiologists use fossil plants to reconstruct Earth’s past climate and inform climate change research today.
Fossil leaves suggest global warming will be harder to fight than scientists thought.
Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead. A study of exceptionally preserved fossils has found that rising global temperatures and a rapidly changing climate 183 million years ago may have created fossilization conditions in the world's oceans that helped preserve the soft and delicate bodies of deceased marine animals.
From the ice sheets of Antarctica and the seabed of the Atlantic, to the boreal forests of Europe and corals of southeast Asia, proxy data is found across the Earth’s land and ocean.
NOAA holds an archive of more than 10,000 proxy datasets covering more than a dozen categories. With its permission, Carbon Brief has mapped this data.
Use the categories in the legend on the left to select a particular proxy or archive type, and the buttons in the top-right hand corner to zoom in and out. Clicking on an individual data point will reveal the period covered by the data, the site name and a link to NOAA’s reference webpage for further information.
One of the palaeontologist's most powerful tools for unravelling climate and sea-level throughout the ages is the way that organisms evolve under the application of environmental pressures. Join Dr Geoff Deacon as he links Western Australia's turbulent past to the lives of oceanic micro-organisms and continental megafauna.
Dr. Scott Wing spent a decade combing the hills in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming to find fossil evidence of the PETM, or Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. It was an extinction event that occurred in the Southern Ocean of Antarctica, 56 million years ago. Here, we talk with him and Dr. Kirk Johnson about how studying the fossil record helps us better understand current impacts of human-caused climate change on our planet, and what it means for our future world.
Proxy data such as tree rings, ice cores, and microorganisms are collected and analyzed by scientists to unlock past climate records stretching back thousands to millions of years ago. This video podcast examines how scientists can decipher past climate from such records by focusing on a proxy calibration study in the Gulf of Mexico. Microfossils recovered from the northern Gulf of Mexico are used to assess the control of temperature and salinity on the composition of microfossil assemblages and the chemical composition of their shells. The new data will be used to develop better estimates of past conditions from analyses of microfossils in sediment cores.
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Studies of marine microfossils have allowed a team of researchers to map extreme global warming which coincided with the most severe mass extinction on Earth approximately 252 million years ago.
What we can do with the geological past is use Earth’s history to learn how life reacted to events in the past, to help to predict how we are dealing with the future.
Terrestrial plant microfossils in palaeoenvironmental studies, pollen, microcharcoal and phytolith. Towards a comprehensive understanding of vegetation, fire and climate changes over the past one million years.
What a three-million year fossil record tells us about climate sensitivity.
The World Heritage listed Riversleigh and Naracoorte fossils sites record millions of years of Australia’s biodiversity and changing climate.