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Contrasted phases of climate would thus occur every ... million years would be required since the commencement of the Cambrian period. Although the conclusions arrived at by investigators are ...

Credit: Dinghua Yang Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ecosystem recovery driven by stable climate conditions ...

For instance, what a vast period of time is indicated by the upheaval and subsequent denudation of the pre-Cambrian (or Archrean) rocks before those of the Palreozoic era were deposited on their ...

Rocks from the Cambrian Period (539-485 million years ago ... major eustatic changes in sea level, and global climate change from the Pennsylvanian ice house to the Permian hot house. Because many ...

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was ... throughout the entire depositional period of study interval; (5) The Qiongzhusi Formation shale experienced a low degree of chemical weathering, under a cold ...

A few decades ago, it wasn't realistic to attribute individual events—even heat waves—to the general warming trend driven by ...

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada. They photographed the specimens, both wet and ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...