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Paléoclimats et mécanismes climatiques

Jacques LABEYRIE

fr Comptes Rendus Palevol 5 (1-2) - Pages 27-34

Published on 28 February 2006

This article is a part of the thematic issue Climates - Culture - Society in prehistoric times. From the appearance of hominids to the Neolithic.

Paléoclimats et mécanismes climatiques

Two mechanisms are described here, which generated the two main types of palaeoclimates – warm and cold – having affected the whole Earth from the post-Mesozoic cooling and the creation of the Gulf Stream (the latter having imposed alternations of warm periods and glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere since the Pliocene times.


Keywords:

Palaeoclimates, isotopes, Gulf Stream, glaciations, insolation variations, tectonics, volcanoes, ocean

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