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Section 7 (Tertiary climates)
This section reviews published evidence for global climatic change and summarises
palaeobotanical and related evidence for climates and climatic change in Australia during the
Tertiary Period. Detailed analyses of the relevant palaeobotanical and other proxy-climatic
evidence are given in Time Slice T-1 (Paleocene) to Time Slice T-5 (Late Miocene-Pliocene)
in Appendix 2.
Section 8 (Conclusions)
This section summarises (a) patterns of climate change in space and time inferred in Sections
5-7 and (b) suggests ways additional information can be recovered from the existing
palaeobotanical data.
Section 9 (References)
The section provides a comprehensive bibliography of relevant climatic, biological and
geological literature up to and including the year 2000.
Appendices
Appendix 1 (Cretaceous)
Palaeobotanical and other relevant data for the Early and Late Cretaceous Periods are
reviewed in Time Slice K-1 to Time Slice K-2 and Time Slice K-3 to Time Slice K-6,
respectively.
Appendix 2 (Tertiary)
Palaeobotanical and other relevant data for the Tertiary Period are reviewed in Time Slice T-1
to Time Slice T-5.
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