Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
Dynamics of sediment flux to a bathyal continental margin section through the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
... Abstract. The response of the Earth system to greenhouse- gas-driven warming is of critical importance for the fu- ture trajectory of our planetary environment. Hyperthermal events – past climate transients with ...
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Constraints on ocean circulation at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum from neodymium isotopes
... the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) ∼ 55 million years ago (Ma) coincided with a massive release of carbon to the ocean– atmosphere system, as indicated by carbon isotopic ...
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Tropical Atlantic climate and ecosystem regime shifts during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
... The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56 Ma) was a phase of rapid global warming associ- ated with massive carbon input into the ocean–atmosphere system from a 13 C-depleted ...uppermost ...
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Acarinina multicamerata n. sp. (Foraminifera): a new marker for the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum
... The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) represents a period of extreme global warmth (Zachos et al., 1993), associ- ated with various biotic turnovers on land and in the sea. Among the ...
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Revisiting carbonate chemistry controls on planktic foraminifera Mg Ca: implications for sea surface temperature and hydrology shifts over the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum and Eocene–Oligocene transition
... the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) enables us to produce a more accurate picture of surface hydrology change for the former and a ...
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A seasonality trigger for carbon injection at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
... Abstract. The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) represents a ∼ 170 kyr episode of anomalous global warmth ∼ 56 Ma ago. The PETM is associated with rapid and massive injections of 13 ...
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Changes in the hydrological cycle in tropical East Africa during the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum
... The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), at ca. 55.8 Ma, is one of the most studied instances of past greenhouse gas-induced global warming. As such, it provides a rich opportunity to ...
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The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum at DSDP Site 277, Campbell Plateau, southern Pacific Ocean
... intact Paleocene–Eocene (P–E) boundary overlain by a 34 cm thick record of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) within nannofossil ...
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Productivity feedback did not terminate the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
... The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) occurred approximately 55 million years ago, and is one of the most dramatic abrupt global warming events in the geological ...
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Variability in climate and productivity during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the western Tethys (Forada section)
... the maximum rise of the CCD, under envi- ronmental conditions so unfavorable that benthic life was ex- cluded, a “dead zone” (sensu Harries and Kauffman, 1990) during the earliest phase of the ...
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Southern ocean warming, sea level and hydrological change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
... the Paleocene- Eocene transition, even though the reconstructed SSTs may be biased towards summer ...temperatures. Maximum tem- peratures were similar to those during the EECO, perhaps implying ...
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Warming, euxinia and sea level rise during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Gulf Coastal Plain: implications for ocean oxygenation and nutrient cycling
... Relative sea level rise is consistent with many marginal marine sedimentary records worldwide (e.g., Speijer and Morsi, 2002; Harding et al., 2011, Fig. 6), and indicate PETM-related eustatic rise (e.g., Sluijs et al., ...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events
... early Eocene ( ∼ 56–50 ...late Paleocene peat ( ∼ 60 000 Gt C) would be extremely large considering masses of present-day peat (<700 Gt C; Page et ...early Eocene, but recent sea level records do ...
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Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
... An extensive earliest Eocene mammalian fauna is described from the PETM interval of Sand Creek Divide, about 17 km northeast of Worland, Wyoming. The assemblage, consisting of more than 1000 speci- mens ...
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Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP): a continental perspective on early Paleogene hyperthermals
... The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), the largest magnitude and best studied hyperthermal, is char- acterized by a global temperature rise of 5–9 ◦ C in less than 10 kyr and an input of ...
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Stable isotope and calcareous nannofossil assemblage record of the late Paleocene and early Eocene (Cicogna section)
... the Paleocene, which climaxed in a Cenozoic high at ...the Paleocene carbon isotope maximum ...the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at ...or Eocene ...
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Identification of the Paleocene–Eocene boundary in coastal strata in the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia
... late Paleocene, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; 56 Ma) and early Eocene, yielding a substantial mismatch between proxy data and climate-model output for this region that ...
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Shale Oil Exploration from Paleocene early Eocene Sequence in Cambay Rift Basin, India
... the Paleocene age and is unconformably underlain by the Middle Eocene Hazad ...early Eocene is often characterized by medium to fine grained sandstone with thin lamination of shale and occasionally ...
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Early Palaeogene planktic foraminiferal and carbon isotope stratigraphy, Hole 762C, Exmouth Plateau, northwest Australian margin
... P9. FAD of secondary marker species Acarinina cuneicamerata (338.95 mbsf) to FAD of secondary marker species Guembelitrioides higginsi (310.91 mbsf). Age: 50.4–49.0 Ma, late early Eocene (latest Ypresian). The FAD ...
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Drilling disturbance and constraints on the onset of the Paleocene–Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion in New Jersey
... Abstract. The onset of the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maxi- mum (PETM) and associated carbon isotope excursion (CIE; approx. 56 Mya) was geologically abrupt, but it is debated whether it took thousands ...
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