Guwahati, Sept. 10 -- In a landmark development, some eminent Indian scientists have discovered a link between Antarctica's ice sheets around 34 million years ago and the evolution of the Indian monsoon system, of fossil leaves in Nagaland.

Researchers from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (Lucknow) and the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (Dehradun), took to climate reconstruction techniques to display the Laisong Formation in Nagaland experienced incessant rainfall and temperatures during that period.

The age of the fossils coincided with the period when massive ice sheets began to form in Antarctica thus referring to a global link - which is the growth of Antarctic ice altered global wind and rainfall patterns.

The s...