Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Paleoecology Of Glacial And Non Glacial Carboniferous Faunas During The Late Paleozoic Ice Age In Patagonia, Nicole Braun
Paleoecology Of Glacial And Non Glacial Carboniferous Faunas During The Late Paleozoic Ice Age In Patagonia, Nicole Braun
Theses and Dissertations
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) records the only icehouse to greenhouse transition in Earth’s history that involved complex marine and terrestrial life and serves as an analogue for Quaternary climate change. Identifying biotic responses to paleoenvironmental variations during the LPIA is important in order to understand how our modern fauna may respond to contemporary climate change. Low-paleolatitude (far-field) marine faunas far from ice centers have been recognized and used as a global proxy for biotic responses to the LPIA, but the biotic responses in high-paleolatitude (near-field) regions close to Gondwanan ice centers have received much less attention. We tested …