Eocene Paleobotany and Paleoecology of the Singida District, Tanzania

电话-9909494 Bonnie F.来自坦桑尼亚中北部辛吉达区的化石植物，可追溯到4600万年前，具有重要意义，因为它们将提供有关活植物群进化的重要信息，热带非洲植物群落的历史发展，以及目前所知甚少的一段时间和世界部分地区的气候。 对现代植物群落的研究表明，叶子的形状和大小与植物生活的气候有关。 这种关系将应用于坦桑尼亚的叶化石，以提供有关4600万年前温度和降雨量的定量信息。 这些数据将在测试计算机气候模型方面具有实际价值，这些模型旨在研究地球气候的功能，过去如何变化以及未来可能如何变化。

EAR - 9909494Bonnie F. JacobsFossil plants from the Singida District of north-central Tanzania, dated at 46 million years old, are significant because they will provide important information about the evolution of living plant groups, the historical development of tropical African plant communities, and the climate for a time period and part of the world from which little is currently known. Studies of modern day plant communities show that leaf shape and size are related to the climate in which the plants live. This relationship will be applied to leaf fossils from Tanzania in order to provide quantitative information about temperature and rainfall 46 million years ago. These data will be of tangible value in testing computer climate models designed to study the ways in which the Earth's climate functions, how it has changed in the past, and how it may change in the future.