Permian climate change recorded in
palynomorph assemblages of Mozambique
(Moatize Basin, eastern Tete Province)
1, 2,
3,
4
| 1 | University of Portsmouth, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL,
United Kingdom |
| 2 | Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya St., Kazan 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation |
| 3 | University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences and Evolutionary Studies Institute, Private Bag 3,
2050 Wits, South Africa |
| 4 | Consulting Geologist, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Online publication date: 2017-06-15
Publication date: 2017-06-15
Acta Palaeobotanica 2017; 57(1): 3–11
ABSTRACT
Knowledge of Late Permian biodiversity patterns, following the end-Guadalupian crisis, is still in
its infancy, since most recent studies have focused on the end-Permian biotic crisis. The palynological record of
southern Africa, however, reveals major climatic changes during the Late Permian. Here we report new palynological
data from eastern Tete Province of Mozambique, documenting the change from cool to warm temperate
climates during the Lopingian. This prominent climate signal was also detected recently in other depositional
environments elsewhere in southern Africa, and thus enables interregional temporal correlations.
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