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Contents Volume 27, 1996

httroduction Climates and Climate Variability of the Pliocene R.Z.PooteandL.C.Sloan.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Pliocene climates: the nature of the problem T.J.C~wky............................................................... 3

Middle Pliocene sea surface temperatures: a global reconstruction H.Dowsett,J.BarronandR.Poore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Middle Pliocene vegetation: reconstructions, paleoclimatic inferences, and boundary conditions for climate modeling R.S. Thompson and R.F. Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Modeling of middle Pliocene climate with the NCAR GENESIS general circulation model L.C.Sloan,T.J.CrowleyandD.Pollard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperamres, fauna1 patterns, and carbonate burial during the Pliocene T.K~g.................................................................. 63

Pliocene climate of Japan and environs between 4.8 and 2.8 Ma: a joint pollen and marine faunal study L.E. Heusser and J.J. Morley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Sediment geochemical evidence for an early-middle Gilbert (early Pliocene) productivity peak in the North Pacific R6d Clay Province G.R.DickensandR.M.Owen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Depositional and microfaunal response to Pliocene climate change and tectonics in the eastern Gulf of Alaska M.B.LagoeandS.D.Zellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Pliocene and early Pleistocene environments and climates of the western Snake River Plain, Idaho R.S.lhompson.............................................................. 141

lhe Pliocene record in the central Arctic Ocean D.L.Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

A benthic foraminiferal record of middle to late Pliocene (3.15-2.85 Ma) deep water change in the North Atlantic S.E.Ishman................................................................ 165

Southeast Atlantic marine and terrestrial response to middle Pliocene climate change H.DowseOandD.Willard........................................................ 181

Diatom constraints on the position of the Antarctic Polar Front in the middle part of the Pliocene J.A.Barron................................................................ 195

No evidence for extreme, long term warming in early Pliocene sediments of the Southern Ocean L.H. Burckle, R. Mortlock and S. Rudolph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Evidence of Pliocene Norhofaglcs in Antarctica from Pliocene marine sedimentary deposits (DSDP Site 274) R.F.FlemingandJ.A.Barron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Major deglaciation of east Antarctica during the early Late Pliocene? Not likely from a marine perspective D.A.Warnke,B.MarxoandD.A.Hodell.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Miocene and Pliocene paleoclimate of the Dry Valleys region, Southern Victoria land: a geomorphological approach D.R.MarchantandG.H.Denton.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

A marine and terrestrial Sirius Group succession, middle Beardmore Glacier-Queen Alexandra Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica P.-N.Webb,D.M.Harwood.M.G.C.MabmandB.C.McKelvey.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Oak leaves as biosensors of late Neogene and early Pleistocene paleoaunospheric CO, concentrations W.M.Kiihner,J.vanderBurgh,H.VisscherandD.L.Dilcher.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Mid-Pliocene warmth: stronger greenhouse and stronger conveyor M.E.Raymo,B.Grant,M.HorowitzandG.H.Rau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313