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The Tortonian Thermal Maximum (TTM) was an interval of relatively warm global climate that occurred during the Tortonian age of the Neogene period.
Timing
[edit]The TTM occurred around 10.8 million years ago, during the early part of the Tortonian.[1]
Effects
[edit]Global mean surface temperature was around 61.5 °F (16.4 °C) (16.4 °C) during the TTM.[2] Lake Pannon, the largest lake in Europe, experienced enhanced nutrient inputs that caused blooms of nannoplankton.[3] Potamidids experienced an expansion in their geographic range, with them entering the Paratethys from the Mediterranean Sea.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Holbourn, Ann; Kuhnt, Wolfgang; Clemens, Steven C.; Heslop, David (10 June 2021). "A ∼12 Myr Miocene Record of East Asian Monsoon Variability From the South China Sea". Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36 (7). doi:10.1029/2021PA004267. hdl:1885/292232. ISSN 2572-4517. Retrieved 10 March 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.
- ↑ Scotese, Christopher R.; Song, Haijun; Mills, Benjamin J. W.; van der Meer, Douwe G. (April 2021). "Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years". Earth-Science Reviews. 215 103503. Bibcode:2021ESRv..21503503S. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503. ISSN 0012-8252. S2CID 233579194. Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ↑ Harzhauser, Mathias; Peresson, Mandana; Benold, Christian; Mandic, Oleg; Ćorić, Stjepan; De Lange, Gert J. (15 January 2023). "Environmental shifts in and around Lake Pannon during the Tortonian Thermal Maximum based on a multi-proxy record from the Vienna Basin (Austria, Late Miocene, Tortonian)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 610 111332. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111332. Retrieved 10 March 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- ↑ Harzhauser, Mathias; Guzhov, Aleksandr; Landau, Bernard M.; Kern, Andrea K.; Neubauer, Thomas A. (15 November 2023). "Oligocene to Pleistocene mudwhelks (Gastropoda: Potamididae, Batillariidae) of the Eurasian Paratethys Sea – Diversity, origins and mangroves". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 630 111811. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111811. Retrieved 10 March 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.