A History of Agriculture in India v1.c11.11

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Climate. General fluctuations of climate during the Tertiary comprised progressive warming up from the lower Eocene, approaching the maximum warmth in the later Eocene, Oligocene and the early Miocene when besides the warm, the wet and humid climate existed and supported tropical rain forests. From the upper Miocene to the Pliocene, the climate gradually cooled again and progressively approached its climax towards the close of the Pliocene. In this general trend of climatic changes, it may be remarked that the warm to wet tropical climate almost uniformly existed all over India during the early and mid-Tertiary and it was more moist than now.