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The 43 pages that link to Paleoclimate, each with the reason it gives.

• Fossil recordRelated: Fossil distributions and forms help reconstruct ancient climates.

• PaleoecologyRelated: Climate reconstructions help explain the environmental pressures on ancient communities.

• Endorheic basinRelated: Sediments and shorelines in closed basins preserve evidence of past rainfall and aridity.

• EvaporiteRelated: Evaporite layers record intervals of strong evaporation and restricted water supply.

• Climate sensitivityRelated: Past warm and cold climates provide evidence about responses to large, sustained forcings.

• PaleobotanyRelated: Fossil leaves, pollen, and wood provide clues to ancient climate.

• PaleobiogeographyRelated: Climate shifts altered which regions could support particular organisms.

• Deccan TrapsNarrower topic: Climate records help test how Deccan emissions affected the boundary interval.

• Alluvial fanRelated: Changes in fan sedimentation can record shifts in rainfall and runoff.

• Snowball EarthNarrower topic: Snowball Earth is an extreme interpretation of ancient climate evidence.

• Gobi DesertNarrower topic: Past climate records reveal how Gobi aridity and ecosystems have changed.

• PaleosolRelated: Paleosol minerals and chemical signatures can indicate ancient temperature and rainfall.

• Greenland ice sheetNarrower topic: Past Greenland ice and sediment records test how the ice sheet responded to earlier warmth.

• Jehol BiotaRelated: Climate reconstructions test how seasonal conditions shaped Jehol habitats and preservation.

• West Antarctic Ice SheetNarrower topic: Past Antarctic ice changes help constrain how the ice sheet may respond to future warming.

• GoethiteRelated: Goethite in ancient soils can help indicate past weathering and climate conditions.

• Last Glacial PeriodNarrower topic: Reconstructing paleoclimate places this glaciation in long-term climate history.

• GlossopterisRelated: Its widespread fossils help reconstruct cool, seasonal Permian environments in Gondwana.

• Ice sheet dynamicsNarrower topic: Past ice-sheet changes provide tests of how ice responds to climates unlike today.

• Atmosphere of MarsCompared with: Mars’s ancient atmospheric conditions must be inferred rather than measured directly.

• Carlsbad CavernsRelated: Cave deposits can preserve records relevant to reconstructing past environmental conditions.

• InterglacialNarrower topic: Interglacials are reconstructed from archives that preserve ancient climate conditions.

• Plant fossilRelated: Fossil leaves and pollen preserve clues to ancient temperature and rainfall.

• Western DesertNarrower topic: Sediments and fossils help reconstruct the desert’s changing past.

• Earth scienceRelated: Geologic records extend climate knowledge beyond the short period of direct observation.

• Nubian Sandstone Aquifer SystemRelated: Past rainfall and climate help explain when much of the aquifer’s stored water entered the ground.

• PaleoenvironmentRelated: Climate is a major component of the environmental conditions reconstructed.

• Etosha PanNarrower topic: Past shifts in rainfall and runoff shaped the lake-to-pan transition.

• Cape AgulhasNarrower topic: Past sea-level and climate changes reshaped the coastal landscapes around the headland.

• Last InterglacialNarrower topic: The interval is one episode within the broader history reconstructed by paleoclimate research.

• Libyan DesertRelated: Past wetter intervals left evidence that the present aridity is not permanent.

• Petrified woodRelated: Growth structures in fossil wood can contribute evidence about ancient climate.

• YutyrannusRelated: Climate reconstructions inform hypotheses about why extensive feathers benefited a large dinosaur in Early Cretaceous China.

• Emi KoussiRelated: Landforms and deposits around the mountain can preserve evidence of wetter Saharan intervals.

• Geological history of EarthRelated: Ancient sediments, fossils, and ice reveal past climate states and shifts.

• LeaellynasauraRelated: Climate reconstructions inform hypotheses about life at Leaellynasaura’s high latitude.

• Pluvial lakeNarrower topic: Past climate determines when lake-forming wet periods occurred.

• Badain Jaran DesertRelated: Lake sediments can preserve evidence of past rainfall and environmental change.

• Candelaria CavesRelated: Cave deposits may preserve environmental records relevant to the region’s past.

• Epsilon Canis MajorisRelated: Past atmospheric effects of Adhara’s radiation have been considered in deep-time climate studies.

• Late Ordovician mass extinctionNarrower topic: The extinction unfolded amid unusually strong climatic change.

• TitanoboaRelated: Titanoboa’s proposed body size has been used to discuss Paleocene tropical temperatures.

• Triassic–Jurassic extinctionNarrower topic: Climate records test how rapidly warming and rainfall changed across the boundary.