The Late Pliocene (3.264 to 3.025 million years before present) was a warm interval in the history of the Earth that can be used to gain a better understanding of the response of the ice sheets to a ...

The mid-Pliocene Warm Period occurred 3 million years ago. Global mean temperatures were 2 to 3ºC higher than today, which is in line with projections made for the 21 st century by the ...

The terrestrial geography and ocean basin configuration were largely unchanged, many floral and faunal species were still extant. Thus, the mid-Pliocene is regarded as a potential analog for the ...

Abstract: The Pliocene—Pleistocene magmatic activity of the Zamboanga are is linked to the southward subduction of the Oligocene—Mio-cene Sulu Sea back-are basin along the Sulu Trench. The magmatic ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth’s atmosphere hit nearly 420 parts per million in 2021 — a level not seen in around four million years, since the mid-Pliocene Epoch, long before our own ...