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News Release 13-061
In Last Great Age of Warmth, Carbon Dioxide at Work...But Not Alone
Scientists find that cloud feedbacks and ocean mixing likely played role in Pliocene warming
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The geochemistry of microscopic plankton (foraminifera) was used to reconstruct ocean temperatures.
Credit: O.R. Anderson
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Scientists aboard the ocean drillship JOIDES Resolution retrieve deep-sea sediment cores.
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Aboard the JOIDES Resolution, crew members remove the core catcher from a core barrel.
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Former dwellers in Pliocene seas: fossil coral found on modern-day Cyprus.
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A fossil gastropod and attached tubeworm from the Pliocene, found on Cyprus.
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