Did Shifts in Tectonic Plates, not Changes in CO<sub>2</sub>, Shape the Modern East Asian Monsoon? (5 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Did Shifts in Tectonic Plates, not Changes in CO<sub>2</sub>, Shape the Modern East Asian Monsoon? (5 of 9)

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Vegetation preserved as fossils in rocks are able to help reconsturct past temperature and rainfall due to their preserved leaf characteriscts and architecture. As with today, species developed specific adaptations that allow them to survive in specific cliamte zones, such as a wet monsoon region. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 30th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Farnsworth at University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2."

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[Credit: Alexander Farnsworth]

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