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Dinosaurs experienced wild shifts in climate

Seed Magazine
Sept. 27, 2006

A study based on an analysis of ocean sediment that will appear in the October issue of "Geology" shows that the climate of ancient Earth was surprisingly fickle. During the Cretaceous period, ocean surface temperatures varied wildly, by as much as 6° C. "We get a switch, from warming then cooling, then warming then cooling," said Simon Brassell, a paleoclimatologist at Indiana University, Bloomington and lead author of the study.

Read the entire article at: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/dinosaurs_experienced_wild_shi.php

Learn more about Brassell: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/362.html

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