Learning From Past to Plan for Future ; Climate Change Expert Studying Prehistoric Life
The Journal › February 03, 2011
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THE world of three million years ago is being recreated in the North East to increase understanding of what climate change may hold for the future. Northumbria University academic Ulrich Salzmann is using pollen and plant microfossils from sediment cores and rocks to construct a picture of vegetation in the late Pliocene period.
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Learning From Past to Plan for Future ; Climate Change Expert Studying Prehistoric Life
"It was a warmer and wetter world," said Dr Salzmann, who has received a pounds 45,000 research gran...
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