Hi

I am a basin modeller using burial and thermal histories to predict the 
hydrocarbon generation and migration in basins, and develop the relevant
commercial software for this.

Among the host of parameters that require constraining in our simulations 
is the surface temperature through time.

Is there a recent overview of palaeosurface temperatures from isotopic data, or any specific papers for particular basins?  Better still a database or Atlas of this?  

Currently I use the palaeolatitude from plate tectonic reconstruction, combined with the guessed palaeobathymetry to get a very rough idea of the surface boundary temperature through time. Any specifics for any particular region would be of assistance.

Thanks for your help

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