yle="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-outline-level: 2" class=MsoNormal>yle="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang=EN-US>Two Methods of Palaeoaltitude Reconstruction and Quantitative Palaeoaltitude Reconstruction of the Middle Miocene Shanwang

yle="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm -16.7pt 0pt 0cm; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-right: -1.59gd" class=MsoNormal align=left>yle="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt" lang=EN-US>Stomatal parameter analysis and thermodynamic principle are two methods to reconstruct quantitatively palaeoaltitude. The two methods are introduced in detail in this paper. Thermodynamic principle is employed to quantitatively reconstruct the palaeoaltitude of the Middle Miocene Shanwang of Shandong ype>ype w:st="on">Provinceype>ype>, Eastern China. The palaeoaltitude turns out to be 400yle="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: ’Times New Roman’; mso-hansi-font-family: ’’Times New Roman’’">～yle="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt" lang=EN-US>1 ype="1" ns1:Negative="False" ns1:HasSpace="True" ns1:SourceValue="0" ns1:UnitName="m">ype="1" Negative="False" HasSpace="True" SourceValue="0" UnitName="m">000 m, compared to its present day ype="1" ns1:Negative="False" ns1:HasSpace="True" ns1:SourceValue="250" ns1:UnitName="m">ype="1" Negative="False" HasSpace="True" SourceValue="250" UnitName="m">250 m, which agrees with the results from coexistence analysis in previous work and suggests a decline of elevation since the Middle Miocene in Shanwang. yle="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt" lang=EN-US>