During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM),∼ 56 Mya, thousands of
petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant …

Constraining the greenhouse gas forcing, climatic warming and estimates of climate
sensitivity across ancient large transient warming events is a major challenge to the …

Benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic (δ18O) and carbon isotopic (δ13C) trends, constructed
from compilations of data series from multiple ocean sites, provide one of the primary means …

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 …

Carbonate and organic matter deposited during the latest Paleocene thermal maximum is
characterized by a remarkable− 2.5‰ excursion in δ13C that occurred over∼ 104 yr and …

Background Recent investigations suggest that biodiversity loss might impair the functioning
and sustainability of ecosystems. Although deep-sea ecosystems are the most extensive on …

Marine barite (BaSO4) is produced in the water column in association with decaying organic
matter; its distribution in the water column and in core-top sediments closely corresponds …

Nannoplankton assemblages at Ocean Drilling Program Site 690 (Maud Rise, Weddell Sea)
experienced an abrupt and dramatic transformation at the onset of the Paleocene‐Eocene …

The late Paleocene thermal maximum, or LPTM (ca. 55 Ma), represents a geologically brief
time interval (∼ 220 ky) characterized by profound global warming and associated …

Extreme global warmth and an abrupt negative carbon isotope excursion during the
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) have been attributed to a massive release of …