The legacy of the Tethys Ocean: Anoxic seas, evaporitic basins, and megalakes in the Cenozoic of Central Europe

DV Palcu, I Mariș, A de Leeuw… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
At the end of the Eocene, the demise of the Tethys Ocean led to the formation of one of the
largest anoxic seas in the last 50 million years of Earth history. This long-lived anoxic water …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of redox variability and early diagenesis on marine sedimentary Hg records

J Frieling, TA Mather, C März, HC Jenkyns… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Volcanism is a dominant natural source of mercury (Hg) to the atmosphere, biosphere,
ocean and sediments. In recent years, sedimentary Hg contents have emerged as a tool to …

Late Miocene cooling and uplift recorded by bacterial H-GDGTs in the Xining Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Y Huang, C Chen, Y Bai, X Fang, L Song… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
The uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) remains uncertain despite many scientific
studies. The development of a novel paleoaltimeter may provide a crucial tool for addressing …

[HTML][HTML] 三原黄土中支链甘油单烷基甘油四醚类化合物的检出及其环境指示意义

潘高超, 张师豪, 杨石岭 - 第四纪研究, 2024 - dsjyj.com.cn
潘高超, 张师豪, 杨石岭. 2024. 三原黄土中支链甘油单烷基甘油四醚类化合物的检出及其环境
指示意义. 第四纪研究, 44 (5): 1308-1321. doi: 10.11928/j. issn. 1001-7410.2024 …

Revisiting the geographical extent of exceptional warmth in the Early Paleogene Southern Ocean

J Frieling, SM Bohaty, MJ Cramwinckel… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To assess zonal temperature and biogeographical patterns in the Southern Ocean during
the Paleogene, we present new multi‐proxy air‐and sea‐surface temperature data for the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether (brGMGT)-based paleothermometry in the 250,000-year sediment record of Lake Chala …

AJ Baxter, F Peterse, D Verschuren, JSS Damsté - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGMGTs), a relatively understudied
group of bacterial membrane lipids structurally similar to branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol …

Volcanic and orbitally forced carbon release during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum

Y Ma, M Fan, C Zhang, SE Grasby, R Yin, Y Lu… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The drivers of the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) remain enigmatic. Here we
report a high-resolution terrestrial MECO record from the Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China …

Rare bioerosion in large benthic foraminifera in the Eocene of NE Iran: Implications for global warming and trophic regime

O Vinn, M Hadi, D Xi, M Allameh - Marine Micropaleontology, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioerosion is rare in large benthic foraminifera (LBF) in the Eocene of Ziarat Formation, Iran.
Three bioerosion ichnotaxa have been identified, including more common Trypanites isp …

North Atlantic surface ocean warming and salinization in response to middle Eocene greenhouse warming

R Van Der Ploeg, MJ Cramwinckel, IJ Kocken… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantitative reconstructions of hydrological change during ancient greenhouse warming
events provide valuable insight into warmer-than-modern hydrological cycles but are limited …

[HTML][HTML] Stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in eastern Azerbaijan: Implications for petroleum systems and paleogeography in the Caspian basin

V Aghayeva, RF Sachsenhofer, CGC van Baak… - Marine and petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Cenozoic succession in the Lower Kura Basin includes largely uniform, often carbonate-
free mudstones. Because age dating of these sediments has proved difficult, the stratigraphy …