Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse

Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López; Chihua Wu; Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya; Julian B. Murton; Wenqiang Tang; Chao Ma

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35676-6

Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse

Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López,
Chihua Wu,
Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya,
Julian B. Murton,
Wenqiang Tang,
Chao Ma

Affiliations

Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López: PAGODA Research Group (Plateau & Global Desert Basins Research Group), Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology
Chihua Wu: PAGODA Research Group (Plateau & Global Desert Basins Research Group), Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology
Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya: Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee
Julian B. Murton: Permafrost Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Sussex
Wenqiang Tang: PAGODA Research Group (Plateau & Global Desert Basins Research Group), Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology
Chao Ma: State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35676-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The archetypal supergreenhouse Cretaceous Earth had an active cryosphere with permafrost in plateau deserts. A modern analogue is the aeolian–permafrost system from the Qiongkuai Lebashi Lake area, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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