Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Frontiers of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

KW Huntington, SV Petersen - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Carbonate minerals contain stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen with different masses
whose abundances and bond arrangement are governed by thermodynamics. The clumped …

A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

SL Goldberg, TM Present… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Ocean temperatures through the Phanerozoic reassessed

EL Grossman, MM Joachimski - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

Temperature evolution and the oxygen isotope composition of Phanerozoic oceans from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

GA Henkes, BH Passey, EL Grossman… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Surface temperature is among the most important parameters describing planetary climate
and habitability, and yet there remains considerable debate about the temperature evolution …

The geologic history of seawater oxygen isotopes from marine iron oxides

N Galili, A Shemesh, R Yam, I Brailovsky, M Sela-Adler… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of marine sedimentary rocks has increased by 10 to
15 per mil since Archean time. Interpretation of this trend is hindered by the dual control of …

Oxygen isotope composition of the Phanerozoic ocean and a possible solution to the dolomite problem

U Ryb, JM Eiler - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The 18O/16O of calcite fossils increased by∼ 8‰ between the Cambrian and present. It has
long been controversial whether this change reflects evolution in the δ18O of seawater, or a …

The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, BT Huber, SL Wing, DJ Lunt… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate

TW Hearing, THP Harvey, M Williams, MJ Leng… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The oceans of the early Cambrian (~ 541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a
marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures—a key component of the …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …