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    This document summarizes key environmental changes over the Phanerozoic Eon. It shows the development of terrestrial ecosystems, with early land plants capable of living in wet areas, the evolution of vertebrates and insects able to live on land near water, and later the emergence of plants and vertebrates adapted to arid environments. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, and sea level fluctuations are plotted over time. Periods of glaciation and "greenhouse" climate states are also indicated. The document provides a high-level overview of the major environmental shifts that have occurred from the Cambrian period to present.

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    This document summarizes key environmental changes over the Phanerozoic Eon. It shows the development of terrestrial ecosystems, with early land plants capable of living in wet areas, the evolution of vertebrates and insects able to live on land near water, and later the emergence of plants and vertebrates adapted to arid environments. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, and sea level fluctuations are plotted over time. Periods of glaciation and "greenhouse" climate states are also indicated. The document provides a high-level overview of the major environmental shifts that have occurred from the Cambrian period to present.

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    A Summary of the Phanerozoic History of the Global Environment Vencentini et al.

    as reported in
    Nature v. 322

    C O S D M P P T J K T p. 1304 11/2008

    C4 grasses
    GRASSES
    VERTEBRATES CAPABLE OF LIFE IN ARID REGIONS
    PLANTS CAPABLE OF LIFE ON IN ARID REGIONS
    Development of the VERTEBRATES CAPABLE OF LIFE ON LAND NEAR WATER
    Terrestrial Ecosystem INSECTS CAPABLE OF LIFE ON LAND
    ESSENTIALLY NO LIFE ON LAND LAND PLANTS CAPABLE OF LIFE IN WET AREAS

    Enlargement
    More of time scale
    continental Alleghenian
    Orogeny N and S Alpine-
    aggregation
    Acadian Atlantic Himalayan
    Orogeny Pangaea Rifting Orogeny
    Rodinia
    Less Extent of Supercontinents Eurasia
    continental
    aggregation

    Paleosol and plant proxies


    Summarized by Royer, 2006
    Atmospheric
    (Berner, 1991 etc.) CO2 Content Eocene-Oligocene drop
    from Pagani et al., 2005
    than today
    Greater

    Modern value
    than today

    Mid-Miocene drop
    Less

    from Tripati et al., 2009


    Enlargement
    of time scale

    30%
    than today

    Atmospheric O2 Content
    Greater

    (Berner, 2001) Modern value


    20%
    than today

    Jurassic to Holocene from


    Less

    Falkowski, Katz, et al., 2005


    10%

    Sea Level (Hallam, 1984)


    than today
    Higher

    Modern value
    than today

    Sea Level (Vail et al., 1977)


    Lower

    Enlargement
    of time scale
    Enlargement
    of time scale
    At least partly Probably

    Enlargement
    ice-free

    of time scale
    "Greenhouse"
    "Ice House"
    glaciated

    Global Climate (Fischer, 1981)


    MAJOR GLACIATION MAJOR
    GLACIATION
    Enlargement
    Major Mass of time scale

    Extinctions
    P E O M P
    Periods Cambr'n Ordovician Sil'n Devon Miss Penn Perm Tri Jurassic Cretaceous P N
    Tertiary Q
    MYBP 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
    LBR 116 EnviroTimeLine07 3/1997; rev. 11/1998, 11/1999; 11/2000; 11/2001; 11/2003; 10/2005; 1/2009; 10/2009.

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