Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

Ocean alkalinity, buffering and biogeochemical processes

JJ Middelburg, K Soetaert, M Hagens - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alkalinity, the excess of proton acceptors over donors, plays a major role in ocean chemistry,
in buffering and in calcium carbonate precipitation and dissolution. Understanding alkalinity …

Ocean carbon storage across the middle Miocene: A new interpretation for the Monterey Event

SM Sosdian, TL Babila, R Greenop, GL Foster… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO, 14–17 Ma) was~ 3–4° C warmer than
present, similar to estimates for 2100. Coincident with the MCO is the Monterey positive …

Carbonate weathering, CO2 redistribution, and Neogene CCD and pCO2 evolution

LA Derry - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The carbonate compensation depth (CCD), δ 13 C of marine carbonate, atmospheric pCO 2
and major ion composition of seawater provide constraints on how geological carbon cycle …

Warm deep-sea temperatures across Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 from clumped isotope thermometry

T Agterhuis, M Ziegler, NJ de Winter… - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The early Eocene hothouse experienced highly elevated atmospheric CO2 levels and
multiple transient global warming events, so-called hyperthermals. The deep ocean …

The Cenozoic Seawater Conundrum: New constraints from Mg isotopes in island dolostones

Z Hu, Z Shi, G Li, Z Xia, L Yi, C Liu, W Li - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mg/Ca ratio of seawater increased from∼ 1.5 to its present value of 5.4 over
the Neogene, indicating a fundamental imbalance in the Mg–Ca cycle during the late …

Limits to timescale dependence in erosion rates: Quantifying glacial and fluvial erosion across timescales

JA Wilner, BJ Nordin, A Getraer, RM Gregoire… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Earth's topography and climate result from the competition between uplift and erosion, but it
has been debated whether rivers or glaciers are more effective erosional agents. We …

Mg isotopes of siliciclastic sediments on continental marginal sea: Insights for the potential to trace silicate weathering

Z Hu, S Yang, C Yang, Y Guo, J Xu, C Zhang - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last decade, much attention has been devoted to Mg isotopic behavior during various
weathering processes. Nonetheless, whether Mg isotopes in terrigenous siliciclastic …

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

G Coletti, L Commissario, L Mariani… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and forty‐four published successions of shallow‐water carbonates, deposited
between the Palaeocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalayas, have been re …

Climatic and environmental changes across the early Eocene climatic optimum at mid-Waipara River, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

EM Crouch, CL Shepherd, HEG Morgans… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous–Paleogene marine sedimentary succession exposed in the banks
of the middle reaches of the Waipara River (referred to as mid-Waipara), north Canterbury …