Low Resolution Global Temperature Data of the Cenozoic Era taken from Oxygen-18 proxies in marine sediment. (Hansen et al.2008)
|
Millions of years
before Present |
Global Temp
Anomaly oC |
Geologic
Events |
|
0 |
-2.7 |
N. Hemisphere
glaciation |
|
2.5
MYBP |
-1 |
N. Hemisphere
glaciation |
|
5 |
+0.8 |
|
|
7.5 |
+1.5 |
|
|
10 |
+1.8 |
|
|
12.5 |
+2.1 |
|
|
15 |
+4.4 |
Mid-Miocene climate
optimum |
|
17.5 |
+3 |
|
|
20 |
+3 |
deglaciation |
|
22.5 |
+3.8 |
deglaciation |
|
25 |
+4.3 |
deglaciation |
|
27.5 |
+2 |
|
|
30 |
+2.2 |
|
|
32.5 |
+2 |
*Antarctic
Glaciation |
|
35 |
+4.3 |
|
|
37.5 |
+5 |
|
|
40 |
+8 |
|
|
42.5 |
+8.2 |
*Himalayan Mountains
form |
|
45 |
+9 |
|
|
47.5 |
+11 |
|
|
50 |
+14.2 |
Eocene Thermal
Maximum |
|
52.5 |
+15.8 |
Indian + Eurasian plates
collide |
|
55 |
+14.2 |
Indian + Eurasian plates
collide |
|
57.5 |
+10.8 |
|
|
60 |
+11 |
|
|
62.5 |
+10.8 |
|
|
65 |
+10 |
|
|
65 |
|
|
65 million years ago, end of the Cenozoic Era and extinction of the dinosaurs.
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