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... This Oligocene cooling is correlated in Australia with the ini tiation of the circum-Antarctic currents between Australia and Antarctica, and also with the glaciation of Antarctica. This cooling continued to the Middle Miocene, at which point there was a brief return to a warming cycle, followed be thought of as having an adaptive advantage in a drying by a cooling that has continued to the present.
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  • middle miocene
  • oxygen isotope
  • late eocene
  • fossil record


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