Abrupt hydrographic changes in the equatorial Pacific and subtropical Atlantic from foraminiferal Mg/Ca indicate greenhouse origin for the thermal maximum at the …

AK Tripati, H Elderfield - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The Paleocene‐Eocene Boundary (PEB) was marked by an extraordinary climatic event,
hypothesized to originate from a large perturbation to the carbon cycle which fueled global …

Foraminiferal Mg/Ca evidence for southern ocean cooling across the eocene–oligocene transition

SM Bohaty, JC Zachos, ML Delaney - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Constraining the magnitude of high-latitude temperature change across the Eocene–
Oligocene transition (EOT) is essential for quantifying the magnitude of Antarctic ice-sheet …

Eocene sea temperatures for the mid-latitude southwest Pacific from Mg/Ca ratios in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

JB Creech, JA Baker, CJ Hollis, HEG Morgans… - Earth and planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
We have used laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to
measure elemental (Mg/Ca, Al/Ca, Mn/Ca, Zn/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Ba/Ca) ratios of 13 species of …

Temperature gradients across the Pacific Ocean during the middle Miocene

LR Fox, BS Wade, A Holbourn… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical Pacific Ocean exert powerful controls on
regional and global climates. Previous studies have suggested that during warm climate …

Tropical sea‐surface temperature reconstruction for the early Paleogene using Mg/Ca ratios of planktonic foraminifera

AK Tripati, ML Delaney, JC Zachos… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the climate dynamics of hypothesized past greenhouse intervals, it is
essential to constrain tropical sea‐surface temperatures (SST), yet existing proxy records …

Revisiting carbonate chemistry controls on planktic foraminifera Mg/Ca: Implications for sea surface temperature and hydrology shifts over the Paleocene–Eocene …

D Evans, BS Wade, M Henehan, J Erez… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
Much of our knowledge of past ocean temperatures comes from the foraminifera Mg/Ca
palaeothermometer. Several nonthermal controls on foraminifera Mg incorporation have …

Evaluating the efficacy of planktonic foraminifer calcite δ18O data for sea surface temperature reconstruction for the Late Miocene

M Williams, AM Haywood, SP Taylor, PJ Valdes… - Geobios, 2005 - Elsevier
This study examines the efficacy of published δ18O data from the calcite of Late Miocene
surface dwelling planktonic foraminifer shells, for sea surface temperature estimates for the …

Vertical thermal structure evolution of Miocene surface waters: western equatorial Pacific DSDP Site 289

JT Gasperi, JP Kennett - Marine Micropaleontology, 1993 - Elsevier
Time series analyses (from∼ 18.7 to 5.8 Ma) of the oxygen isotopic composition of four
shallow-dwelling planktic foraminifera (Globorotalia mayeri, Dentoglobigerina altispira …

Reassessment of foraminiferal‐based tropical sea surface δ18O paleotemperatures

LD Stott, CM Tang - Paleoceanography, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The possibility exists that the magnitude of Glacial/Holocene δ18O change in the tropical
oceans was previously under‐estimated due to the dampening effect of bioturbation on bulk …

Multiproxy record of abrupt sea-surface cooling across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Gulf of Mexico

BS Wade, AJP Houben, W Quaijtaal… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT; ca. 33–34 Ma) was a time of pronounced
climatic change, marked by the establishment of continental-scale Antarctic ice sheets. The …