Most researchers pay attention on temperature and CO2 alternation during life evolution, I mean geological periods, like Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Is there any authentic data expressing other environmental factors like light, water, and chemical atmosphere component druing the geological periods?
To some extent, yes, it is preserved in the geologic record -- for instance, we know that hurricanes during the Cretaceous were much stronger than today. The data for this can be found in papers from paleontological journals as well as paleoclimate journals and proceedings. I did find an interesting paper on forests and albedo during the Cretaceous: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692175/
Thanks Mel. Is there any excellent paper predicted the history of our climate in the past ?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/metadata/noaa-ocean-8674.html
Zachos et al., 2001 is an amazing study on exactly this, for the entire Cenozoic. You'll need some background in delta-C13 and delta-O18 to really grasp it, but it's well worth the effort. In particular, Figure 2 is one of my favorite figures in climetology.
As Mel White also suggested, you can examine the tempestite literautre. Barrier islands are another feature worth looking into--they tend to be mobile on geological scales, and that mobility is dictated by climate. Paleobotany is another great place to look for data, as different plants have different tollerances (though issues of evolution impacting this will of course arise the further back in time you go). There's also the dominance of C3 vs. C4 plants (in the Cenozoic, anyway), which indicates certain aspects of the climate.
I've seen reconstructions of ocean current data, but only ever in passing. They may be worth looking into. The gyres would be impacted by wind patterns, and the thermohaline circulation would indicate temperature (for example, in the Late Cretaceous the thermohaline circulation shut down to a large extent, leading to disoxic and anoxic conditions in the ocean floor).
This really illustrates the problem with your question: it's a huge question, with many pieces contributing to our understanding of it. Attempting to synthesize all of that down to a single whole would be a Herculean task.
Hi, James! Thanks so much. You give me a valuable webstie, NOAA provides many datasets, those might be useful for me.
I think you can research alternation of ocean climate condition and its impacts on evolution of aquatic life. Maybe we can use these trends to predict the evolution of aquatic life to the current and future changes of global ocean climate, which may give rise to ecosystem of microbiology, and further impact the bulding of our fisheries.
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That should give you enough to be going on with - there are numerous studies of particular chronostrratigraphic events - few try to tie it all together - as there are few geological records with enough through data
Hi, Keith, thank you. I see you had answered the other question posted by me. I'd like to disscuss with you in that page.
Thanks.
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