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Middle Miocene terrestrial climate reconstructions

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
Topic
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Summary

Middle Miocene terrestrial climate reconstructions from fossil plant remains. 197 sites are reconstructed from across the globe. These are presented with latitude-longitude co-ordinates (both modern and palaeo), published minimum and maximum ages of each site and a 1/0 column to denote those sites relating to the mid Miocene climatic optimum. Reconstructed variables are: bio1 (mean annual temperature in °C), bio8 (mean temperature of the wettest quarter in °C), bio10 (mean temperature of the warmest quarter in °C), bio11 (mean temperature of the coldest quarter in °C), bio12 (mean annual precipitation in mm), bio14 (Precipitation of Driest Month in mm), bio17 (Precipitation of Driest Quarter in mm), bio18 (Precipitation of Warmest Quarter in mm) and bio19 (Precipitation of coldest Quarter in mm). bios are presented as an optima with 0.5 and 0.95 uncertainty

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
12 August 2026
Harvest GUID
2c2b8532-fe4e-2289-e063-0937940a7d3b
Extent (Latitude)
90.0000° to -90.0000°
Extent (Longitude)
-180.0000° to 180.0000°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2024-12-23
Frequency of update
notApplicable
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
Northumbria University (originator); British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng