Orbitally paced carbon and deep‐sea temperature changes at the peak of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

V Lauretano, JC Zachos… - Paleoceanography and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The late Paleocene to early Eocene warming trend was punctuated by a series of orbitally
paced transient warming events, associated with the release of isotopically light carbon into …

A high-resolution benthic stable-isotope record for the South Atlantic: Implications for orbital-scale changes in Late Paleocene–Early Eocene climate and carbon …

K Littler, U Röhl, T Westerhold, JC Zachos - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleocene and Early Eocene were characterized by warm greenhouse
climates, punctuated by a series of rapid warming and ocean acidification events known as …

Middle to late Miocene stepwise climate cooling: Evidence from a high‐resolution deep water isotope curve spanning 8 million years

A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, S Clemens, W Prell… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present high‐resolution (2–3 kyr) benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes in a
continuous, well‐preserved sedimentary archive from the West Pacific Ocean (Ocean …

Global extent of early Eocene hyperthermal events: A new Pacific benthic foraminiferal isotope record from Shatsky Rise (ODP Site 1209)

T Westerhold, U Röhl, B Donner… - Paleoceanography and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Studying the dynamics of past global warming events during the late Paleocene to middle
Eocene informs our understanding of Earth's carbon cycle behavior under elevated …

Sensitivity of ocean circulation to warming during the Early Eocene greenhouse

S Kirtland Turner, A Ridgwell… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Multiple abrupt warming events (“hyperthermals”) punctuated the Early Eocene and were
associated with deep-sea temperature increases of 2 to 4° C, seafloor carbonate dissolution …

High‐resolution (104 years) deep‐sea foraminiferal stable isotope records of the Eocene‐Oligocene climate transition

JC Zachos, TM Quinn, KA Salamy - Paleoceanography, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
We have constructed high‐resolution (104–105 years) benthic foraminiferal δ13C and δ18O
records for the upper Eocene through lower Oligocene of two pelagic sequences, Deep Sea …

Coherent pattern and timing of the carbon isotope excursion and warming during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 as recorded in planktic and benthic foraminifera

L Stap, L Lourens, A van Dijk… - Geochemistry …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM2;∼ 53.7 Ma) occurred approximately 2 Myr after the
Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (∼ 55.5 Ma) and was characterized by a deep‐sea …

Frequency, magnitude and character of hyperthermal events at the onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

V Lauretano, K Littler, M Polling, JC Zachos… - Climate of the …, 2015 - cp.copernicus.org
Recent studies have shown that the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) was preceded
by a series of short-lived global warming events, known as hyperthermals. Here we present …

Global perturbation of the carbon cycle at the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum

A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, KGD Kochhann… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO; ca. 17–14.7 Ma) represents one of several
major interruptions in the long-term cooling trend of the past 50 my To date, the processes …

Global carbon cycle perturbation across the Eocene‐Oligocene climate transition

DI Armstrong McKay, T Tyrrell, PA Wilson - Paleoceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Eocene‐Oligocene transition (EOT),~ 34 Ma, marks a tipping point in the long‐
term Cenozoic greenhouse to icehouse climate transition. Paleorecords reveal stepwise …