Abstract
The Permian Period represents both a transition and a beginning in global paleoclimate. Continental glaciation, which peaked in the Late Carboniferous, declined and ceased during the Permian, and climate typical of the Pangean (Permian through Middle Jurassic; Parrish 1992) megamonsoon (Kutzbach and Gallimore 1989) began. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a global paleoclimatic context for this Volume, by summarizing current information about the development of global climate during the Permian Period.
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Parrish, J.T. (1995). Geologic Evidence of Permian Climate. In: Scholle, P.A., Peryt, T.M., Ulmer-Scholle, D.S. (eds) The Permian of Northern Pangea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78593-1_4
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