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Describing changing climate from early to late Mesozoic
Here is a fill-in-the-blanks practice exercise to help summarize some descriptive aspects of the changing Mesozoic climate. The [?] hint buttons offer words you can choose from.
One reason we believe temperatures were
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at the poles in the Triassic compared to today is that
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,
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, and
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have not been found in rocks that were at the poles during that time.
In the late Jurassic, continental interiors were
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, polar regions were
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and climate variability appeared to be
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compared to today.
Towards the mid Cretaceous sea levels were
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, the total global length of coastlines was
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, CO
2
was
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today and there was probably
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ice at the poles.
Check
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EOSC 116 Active Reading
by
F.Jones, L.Longridge, 2014-2016
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