An international team of scientists are studying earth core samples from the Bighorn Mountains to better understand climate change. Traces of natural substances leave hints about ancient climates in the rock.
Will Clyde teaches geology at the University of New Hampshire and leads the Project. He says the Bighorns were created during a period of intense global warming, 56 million years ago. There were even palm trees and crocodiles living in Wyoming. Clyde’s team is investigating natural occurrences that threw off the earth’s carbon cycle, causing the earth’s temperature to spike drastically.
