Fossils prove useful in analyzing million year old cyclical phenomena
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 19:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Analysing palaeontological data helps characterize irregular paleoenvironmental cycles, lasting between less than 1 day and more than millions of years. Scientists have shown that the cyclical phenomena that affect the environment, like climate change, in the atmosphere-ocean dynamic and, even, disturbances to planetary orbits, have existed since hundreds of millions of year ago and can be studied by analyzing fossils.