A middle Eocene carbon cycle conundrum

A Sluijs, RE Zeebe, PK Bijl, SM Bohaty - Nature Geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was an approximately 500,000-year-
long episode of widespread ocean–atmosphere warming about 40 million years ago …

Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum

AJ Krause, A Sluijs, R Van der Ploeg, TM Lenton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (around 40 million years ago) was a roughly
400,000-year-long global warming phase associated with an increase in atmospheric CO2 …

A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

H Pälike, MW Lyle, H Nishi, I Raffi, A Ridgwell… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and climate are regulated on geological
timescales by the balance between carbon input from volcanic and metamorphic outgassing …

Organic-rich sedimentation in the South Pacific Ocean associated with Late Paleocene climatic cooling

CJ Hollis, MJS Tayler, B Andrew, KW Taylor… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
A distinctive organic-rich marine mudstone of Late Paleocene age occurs in most of New
Zealand's sedimentary basins and has been identified as a potential source rock for oil and …

Aridification in continental Asia after the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO)

RE Bosboom, HA Abels, C Hoorn… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Global climate cooling from greenhouse to icehouse conditions occurred across an
enigmatic transitional interval during the Eocene epoch characterized by incipient polar ice …

Revisiting the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum “Carbon Cycle Conundrum” With New Estimates of Atmospheric pCO2 From Boron Isotopes

MJ Henehan, KM Edgar, GL Foster… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a gradual warming event and
carbon cycle perturbation that occurred between 40.5 and 40.1 Ma. A number of …

The middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO): A multiproxy record of paleoceanographic changes in the southeast Atlantic (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge)

F Boscolo Galazzo, E Thomas, M Pagani… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO,~ 40 Ma) was a transient period of global
warming that interrupted the secular Cenozoic cooling trend. We investigated the …

Impact of the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) on foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil assemblages in the Neo-Tethyan Baskil Section (Eastern Turkey) …

R D'Onofrio, AS Zaky, F Frontalini, V Luciani… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application A challenging issue for humankind is the understanding of the future
biota state within the context of global change (anthropogenic CO2 emissions, global …

Middle Eocene greenhouse warming facilitated by diminished weathering feedback

R van der Ploeg, D Selby, MJ Cramwinckel, Y Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) represents a~ 500-kyr period of
global warming~ 40 million years ago and is associated with a rise in atmospheric CO2 …

Rapid middle Eocene temperature change in western North America

K Methner, A Mulch, J Fiebig, U Wacker… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Eocene hyperthermals are among the most enigmatic phenomena of Cenozoic climate
dynamics. These hyperthermals represent temperature extremes superimposed on an …