Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1199-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1199-2016
Research article
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20 May 2016
Research article |  | 20 May 2016

Palaeoclimatic oscillations in the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of the Asturian Basin (Northern Spain)

Juan J. Gómez, María J. Comas-Rengifo, and Antonio Goy

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One of the challenges is to elucidate if climate during the Jurassic was warmer than present day, with no ice caps. The Pliensbachian Cooling event (Lower Jurassic) has been pointed out as one of the main candidates to have developed ice caps. The Rodiles section of the Asturian Basin (Northern Spain), allows the characterization of several climatic changes of probable global extent.