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A thesis of the UGR analyses more than 20-million-year-old vegetation to study climatic evolution

The research work is based on the study of samples obtained in sedimentary bowls from the south of Spain to Turkey. The results drawn in the project point out that 14 million years ago, glaciations in the south pole caused a climatic change, that turned from subtropical to warm.

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