Journal article
High latitude Albian climate variability: Palynological evidence for long-term drying in a greenhouse world
Barbara E Wagstaff, Stephen J Gallagher, Martin S Norvick, David J Cantrill, Malcolm W Wallace
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY | ELSEVIER | Published : 2013
Abstract
Detailed "Quaternary-style" quantitative spore-pollen counts, with a pollen sum based on total non-angiosperm seed plants, from a southern high palaeolatitude (60-65°) terrestrial sequence in Gippsland, southeast Australia has revealed strong vegetation and climate variability during the Albian. This variability is more pronounced than previously suggested in global Early Cretaceous vegetation and climate reconstructions. The quantitative spore-pollen record shows drying throughout the Albian based on upward decreasing total ferns and variation in podocarp and total Alisporites/. Vitreisporites pollen. This record suggests that although global climate during the Albian is considered to have ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Lakes Oil N.L. for providing access to geological data on the wells and some of the samples from Wombat-3. The Department of Primary Industries allowed sampling of the wells and we would particularly like to thank Terry Smith for providing help with accessing the cuttings. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments to improve the text. ARC Linkage Grant LP0989203 funded this research with industry partners Lakes Oil N.L., Nexus Energy and Geotrack International.