Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

To garner the results of this study, the research team looked at the impacts of two major asteroids from the late Eocene epoch (about 38 million years to 33 million years ago). One created the 60-mile ...

No paleoclimatic anomalies are associated with the late Eocene extraterrestrial impact events. Communications Earth & Environment , 2024; 5 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01874-x Cite This Page : ...

Thirty-four-million years ago, Earth changed profoundly. What happened, and how were Earth's animals, ... with a sharp temperature drop of about two degrees Celsius in the Late Eocene.

image: The Late Eocene Earth -- Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts by Christian Koeberl and Alessandro Montanari (editors). view more Credit: Geological Society of America ...

Similarly, in the late Eocene, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were dropping, ice sheets began to form in Antarctica and the climate transitioned to a Coolhouse state. “The climate can become ...

Between 34 million to 44 million years ago, an epoch known as the middle-to-late Eocene, Earth's atmosphere transformed drastically. As carbon dioxide levels plummeted, global cooling triggered ...

Between 34 million to 44 million years ago, an epoch known as the middle-to-late Eocene, Earth's atmosphere transformed drastically. As carbon dioxide levels plummeted, global cooling triggered ...