[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 …

Lipid biomarkers: molecular tools for illuminating the history of microbial life

RE Summons, PV Welander, DA Gold - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Fossilized lipids preserved in sedimentary rocks offer singular insights into the Earth's
palaeobiology. These 'biomarkers' encode information pertaining to the oxygenation of the …

Thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions

H Song, DB Kemp, L Tian, D Chu, H Song… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is a critical factor affecting biodiversity. However, the quantitative
relationship between temperature change and extinction is unclear. Here, we analyze …

A paleolatitude calculator for paleoclimate studies

DJJ van Hinsbergen, LV De Groot, SJ van Schaik… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Realistic appraisal of paleoclimatic information obtained from a particular location requires
accurate knowledge of its paleolatitude defined relative to the Earth's spin-axis. This is …

The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

EC Hopmans, S Schouten, JSS Damsté - Organic Geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of methods using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to
analyze glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) has substantially expanded the …

Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

MJ Cramwinckel, M Huber, IJ Kocken, C Agnini, PK Bijl… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoclimate reconstructions of periods with warm climates and high atmospheric CO2
concentrations are crucial for developing better projections of future climate change. Deep …

The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

S Schouten, EC Hopmans, JSS Damsté - Organic geochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids are membrane lipids which were long
thought to be synthesized mainly by archaea, organisms thought to be limited to extreme …

Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

C De Jonge, EC Hopmans, CI Zell, JH Kim… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in soils has been
shown to correlate with the soil pH and the mean annual air temperature (MAT). This has …

[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO 2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …