Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse

The archetypal supergreenhouse Cretaceous Earth had an active cryosphere with permafrost in plateau deserts. A modern analogue is the aeolian–permafrost system from the Qiongkuai Lebashi Lake area, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López, Chihua Wu, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Julian B. Murton, Wenqiang Tang, Chao Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35676-6