Timeline for How Hot was the Oligocene?
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | plannapus | No it couldn't because i do not know the correspondance of d18O cibicidoides to degree Celsius. If I ever find a good source for it, I'll add it to my answer. The cooling at the E/O boundary is thought to be a drop of nearly 5°C so I would assume the Oligocene period (before the final warming) was ~8° warmer than today, but I do not have any reliable source for that. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:47 | comment | added | Communisty | Couldn't you just simplify it like saying how much warmer would that be then? Not sure what the OP was after, but I would expect something like 'approximately 5 Celsius colder than current climate' as a punch line. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:43 | comment | added | plannapus | The graph should help estimating how much warmer it was as the relationship between temperature and d18O is linear. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | plannapus |
@Communisty The question was what was the climate of the Oligocene like in comparison with today's climate? and my answer was warmer than the late Miocene to Recent period.
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 11:49 | comment | added | Communisty | It seems you didn't answer the question. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:18 | comment | added | plannapus | Of course I made a typo on the graph: GTPS should be GPTS (i. e. Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale). Will try to change it when I'll have time to redo the graph. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:30 | history | answered | plannapus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |