Pangaean aggregation and disaggregation with evidence from global climate belts
Chen Xu1,*, A. J. Boucot2, C. R. Scotese3, Fan Junxuan1
1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
2. Department of Zoology, Oregen State University, Oregon 97331, USA
3. Department of Geology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX 76019, USA
A study of using climate sensitive deposits as a compiled climatic data to locate global climatic belt boundaries through time is developed by the present authors since the 1990s. Global latitudinal belts were presented from Cambrian to Permian as well as the interval from the early Late Cretaceous to the present. However, during the later Permian and into the Early Cretaceous we noted that the failure of the tropical-subtropical belt to penetrate into the interior of Pangaean resulted in the merging of the two arid belts associated with the northern and southern Hadley Cells into one vast, interior arid region. A Pangaeanic paleogeography dominates and obviously affects the climatic distribution from the Late Permian to Early Cretaceous. We employ the dismission and reoccurrence of the global latitudinal climate belts to determine the aggregation and disaggregation of the Pangaean.
Chen Xu,A.J.Boucot,C.R.Scotese et al. Pangaean aggregation and disaggregation with evidence from global climate belts[J]. Journal of Palaeogeography, 2012, 1(1): 5-13.
Chen Xu,A.J.Boucot,C.R.Scotese et al. Pangaean aggregation and disaggregation with evidence from global climate belts[J]. Journal of Palaeogeography, 2012, 1(1): 5-13.
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