The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse climate

BT Huber, KG MacLeod, DK Watkins… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
A compilation of foraminiferal stable isotope measurements from southern high latitude
(SHL) deep-sea sites provides a novel perspective important for understanding Earth's …

Middle–Late Cretaceous climate of the southern high latitudes: stable isotopic evidence for minimal equator-to-pole thermal gradients

BT Huber, DA Hodell… - Geological Society of …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed δ18O and δ13C stratigraphy has been generated from analysis of well-preserved
Albian–early Maastrichtian foraminifera from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Sites 511 …

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 …

Extreme polar warmth during the Cretaceous greenhouse? Paradox of the late Turonian δ18O record at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 511

KL Bice, BT Huber, RD Norris - Paleoceanography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen isotope data for upper Turonian planktonic foraminifera at Deep Sea Drilling Project
Site 511 (Falkland Plateau, 60° S paleolatitude) exhibit an∼ 2‰ excursion to values as low …

Deep-sea paleotemperature record of extreme warmth during the Cretaceous

BT Huber, RD Norris, KG MacLeod - Geology, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Oxygen isotope analyses of well-preserved foraminifera from Blake Nose (30° N
paleolatitude, North Atlantic) and globally distributed deep-sea sites provide a long-term …

Warm, equable mid-Cretaceous: Stable isotope evidence

ML Fassell, TJ Bralower - Special Paper of the Geological Society of …, 1999 - pure.psu.edu
Recent studies have proposed widely differing interpretations of mid-Cretaceous oceanic
thermal gradients. These disparities result from the combination of stable isotope data from …

Low-latitude sea-surface temperatures for the mid-Cretaceous and the evolution of planktic foraminifera

RD Norris, PA Wilson - Geology, 1998 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Isotopic data from exceptionally well preserved foraminifera show that the subtropical North
Atlantic had sea surface temperatures (SSTs) between 30 and 31° C during the late Albian …

A review of terrestrial and marine climates in the Cretaceous with implications for modelling the 'Greenhouse Earth'

RA Spicer, RM Corfield - Geological Magazine, 1992 - cambridge.org
From the unique perspective of the geological record, it appears that the 'Greenhouse
Earth'was a feature of climate for up to 80% of the last 500 Ma, and that therefore our present …

Marine rapid environmental/climatic change in the Cretaceous greenhouse world

X Hu, M Wagreich, IO Yilmaz - Cretaceous Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous Period serves as a relevant model to understand greenhouse climate
evolution. As atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise in the twenty-first century …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

CL O'Brien, SA Robinson, RD Pancost… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
It is well established that greenhouse conditions prevailed during the Cretaceous Period (~
145–66 Ma). Determining the exact nature of the greenhouse-gas forcing, climatic warming …