Publications by authors named "Hemmo A Abels"
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- Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the early Eocene led to significant global warming events similar to today's climate change.
- During these warming events, specifically the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM2), mammalian dwarfing was observed as a response to climate shifts.
- The study found that during ETM2, certain mammal groups, especially early horses, showed a notable decrease in size, indicating that the degree of dwarfing correlates with the intensity of these warming events.
The Paleozoic Dniepr-Donets Basin in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia forms a major hydrocarbon province. Although well- and seismic data have established a 20 km thick stratigraphy, field-studies of its sediments are scarce. The inverted Donbas segment (Ukraine) exposes the middle Carboniferous part of the basin's stratigraphy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinental aridification and the intensification of the monsoons in Asia are generally attributed to uplift of the Tibetan plateau and to the land-sea redistributions associated with the continental collision of India and Asia, whereas some studies suggest that past changes in Asian environments are mainly governed by global climate. The most dramatic climate event since the onset of the collision of India and Asia is the Eocene-Oligocene transition, an abrupt cooling step associated with the onset of glaciation in Antarctica 34 million years ago. However, the influence of this global event on Asian environments is poorly understood.
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