A new 55 my global compilation of benthic foraminifera δ13C and δ18O for the middle to
Late Cretaceous shows that there was widespread formation of bottom waters with …

Understanding the behavior of the global climate system during extremely warm periods is
one of the major themes of paleoclimatology. Proxy data demonstrate that the equator-to …

Earth system climate sensitivity (ESS) is the long‐term (> 103 year) response of global
surface temperature to doubled CO2 that integrates fast and slow climate feedbacks. ESS …

For a long time, evaporitic sequences have been interpreted as indicative of an arid climate.
Such systematic interpretations led to the suggestion that the Central segment of the South …

The role that meridional overturning circulation (MOC) patterns played in poleward heat
transport during the extreme warmth of the Early to Late Cretaceous is a fundamental and …

The oxygen isotopic compositions of Carboniferous conodonts and fish microfossils
(ichthyoliths), from identical samples, were analysed in tandem in order to test whether these …

Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios are reported from exceptionally well preserved, early Late
Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aragonitic mollusks (ammonites, bivalves, gastropods) from the …

Oxygen isotopic analysis of the phosphate in bioapatite has become a standard
paleoclimatological tool with results documented in a rapidly expanding literature …

This atlas illustrates global climatic zones in five major turning points of Cenozoic climate
history: the K/T, the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), the Eocene/Oligocene …

Other chapters of this book trace important themes of geobiology through time. This chapter
explores such themes as well, but it provides what amounts to a 'horizontal'rather than …