Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

H Brinkhuis, S Schouten, ME Collinson, A Sluijs… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
It has been suggested, on the basis of modern hydrology and fully coupled palaeoclimate
simulations, that the warm greenhouse conditions that characterized the early Palaeogene …

Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

GN Inglis, A Farnsworth, D Lunt, GL Foster… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The TEX86 proxy, based on the distribution of marine isoprenoidal glycerol dialkyl glycerol
tetraether lipids (GDGTs), is increasingly used to reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) …

Increased seasonality through the Eocene to Oligocene transition in northern high latitudes

JS Eldrett, DR Greenwood, IC Harding, M Huber - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
A profound global climate shift took place at the Eocene–Oligocene transition (∼ 33.5
million years ago) when Cretaceous/early Palaeogene greenhouse conditions gave way to …

Paleogene evolution and demise of the proto‐Paratethys Sea in Central Asia (Tarim and Tajik basins): Role of intensified tectonic activity at ca. 41 Ma

MY Kaya, G Dupont‐Nivet, JN Proust, P Roperch… - Basin …, 2019 - earthdoc.org
Abstract The proto‐Paratethys Sea covered a vast area extending from the Mediterranean
Tethys to the Tarim Basin in western China during Cretaceous and early Paleogene …

Continental ice in Greenland during the Eocene and Oligocene

JS Eldrett, IC Harding, PA Wilson, E Butler, AP Roberts - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract The Eocene and Oligocene epochs (∼ 55 to 23 million years ago) comprise a
critical phase in Earth history. An array of geological records,,,, supported by climate …

Age model and core‐seismic integration for the Cenozoic Arctic Coring Expedition sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge

J Backman, M Jakobsson, M Frank… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic biostratigraphic, cosmogenic isotope, magnetostratigraphic, and cyclostratigraphic
data derived from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 302, the Arctic Coring …

Arctic late Paleocene–early Eocene paleoenvironments with special emphasis on the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum (Lomonosov Ridge, Integrated Ocean …

A Sluijs, U Röhl, S Schouten, HJ Brumsack… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstruct the latest Paleocene and early Eocene (∼ 57–50 Ma) environmental trends
in the Arctic Ocean and focus on the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)(∼ 55 …

A revised correlation of Tertiary rocks in the British Isles and adjacent areas of NW Europe

C King - 2016 - books.google.com
This Special Report comprehensively describes the stratigraphy and correlation of the
Tertiary (Paleogene–Neogene) rocks of NW Europe and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean and is …

Late Eocene Southern Ocean cooling and invigoration of circulation preconditioned Antarctica for full‐scale glaciation

AJP Houben, PK Bijl, A Sluijs… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition (EOT; 34–33.5 Ma), Antarctic ice sheets
relatively rapidly expanded, leading to the first continent‐scale glaciation of the Cenozoic …

Evidence for glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere back to 44 Ma from ice-rafted debris in the Greenland Sea

AK Tripati, RA Eagle, A Morton, JA Dowdeswell… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
The widely accepted age estimate for the onset of glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere
ranges between 2 and 15 million years ago (Ma). However, recent studies indicate the date …