The generally warm and ice-free conditions of the Eocene epoch rapidly declined to the cold and glaciated state of the Oligocene epoch. Geochemical evidence from deep-sea sediments resolves in detail the climatic events surrounding this transition.
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Billups, K. A tale of two climates. Nature Geosci 1, 294–295 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo191
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