Was climatic cooling during the earliest Carboniferous driven by expansion of seed plants?

Chen, B; Chen, JT; Qie, WK; Huang, P; He, TC; Joachimski, MM; Regelous, M; von Strandmann, PAEP; Liu, JS; Wang, XD; Montanez, IP; Algeo, TJ

Chen, B (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China.; Chen, B (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China.

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 2021; 565 ():

Abstract

The expansion of land plants is considered to have played a key role in triggering the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA), but evidence linking climatic ev......

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