The latter is important to glaciology, paleoclimate and changes in global sea level. |
The group has been in the forefront of this sort of climate research using ice cores and in the interpretation of the paleoclimate histories. |
Thus paleoclimate observations from the west coast of Canada are of both regional and continental importance. |
Professor Ian Plimer, geologist and paleoclimate expert, University of Adelaide. |
However, paleoclimate scientists have also made some approximations of global temperatures further back in time. |
Climate changes associated with the supercontinent of Pangea and with its eventual breakup and dispersal provide an example of the effect of plate tectonics on paleoclimate. |