Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate
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- Thomas Wong Hearing (UGent) , Alexandre Pohl, Mark Williams, Yannick Donnadieu, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Christopher R. Scotese, Pierre Sepulchre, Alain Franc and Thijs Vandenbroucke (UGent)
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- Marine ecosystems with a diverse range of animal groups became established during the early Cambrian (similar to 541 to similar to 509 Ma). However, Earth's environmental parameters and palaeogeography in this interval of major macro-evolutionary change remain poorly constrained. Here, we test contrasting hypotheses of continental configuration and climate that have profound implications for interpreting Cambrian environmental proxies. We integrate general circulation models and geological observations to test three variants of the 'Antarctocentric' paradigm, with a southern polar continent, and an 'equatorial' configuration that lacks polar continents. This quantitative framework can be applied to other deep-time intervals when environmental proxy data are scarce. Our results show that the Antarctocentric palaeogeographic paradigm can reconcile geological data and simulated Cambrian climate. Our analyses indicate a greenhouse climate during the Cambrian animal radiation, with mean annual sea-surface temperatures between similar to 9 degrees C to similar to 19 degrees C and similar to 30 degrees C to similar to 38 degrees C for polar and tropical palaeolatitudes, respectively.
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- ATMOSPHERIC CO2, PALEOCLIMATE MODEL, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, ORDOVICIAN, EARTH, PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY, MARINE, DRIVER, CHINA
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- Wong Hearing, Thomas, et al. “Quantitative Comparison of Geological Data and Model Simulations Constrains Early Cambrian Geography and Climate.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24141-5.
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- Wong Hearing, T., Pohl, A., Williams, M., Donnadieu, Y., Harvey, T. H. P., Scotese, C. R., … Vandenbroucke, T. (2021). Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24141-5
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- Wong Hearing, Thomas, Alexandre Pohl, Mark Williams, Yannick Donnadieu, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Christopher R. Scotese, Pierre Sepulchre, Alain Franc, and Thijs Vandenbroucke. 2021. “Quantitative Comparison of Geological Data and Model Simulations Constrains Early Cambrian Geography and Climate.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24141-5.
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- Wong Hearing, Thomas, Alexandre Pohl, Mark Williams, Yannick Donnadieu, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Christopher R. Scotese, Pierre Sepulchre, Alain Franc, and Thijs Vandenbroucke. 2021. “Quantitative Comparison of Geological Data and Model Simulations Constrains Early Cambrian Geography and Climate.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 12 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24141-5.
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- 1.Wong Hearing T, Pohl A, Williams M, Donnadieu Y, Harvey THP, Scotese CR, et al. Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2021;12(1).
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- [1]T. Wong Hearing et al., “Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate,” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
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