…ate Pliocene to early Pleistocene related to global climatic and local tectonic events. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3(1):11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-016-0087-4 Jang, J.-H., Bahk, J.-J., and Lee, D.E., 2025. Dominant wind patterns shaping grain-size records at …

…e ages . [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Miocene boundaries are not marked by distinct global events but by regionally defined transitions from the warmer Oligocene to the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, Afro-Arabia collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Me…