Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale

BS Wade, PN Pearson, WA Berggren, H Pälike - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Planktonic foraminifera are widely utilized for the biostratigraphy of Cretaceous and
Cenozoic marine sediments and are a fundamental component of Cenozoic …

[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 …

A revised tropical to subtropical Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal zonation

WA Berggren, PN Pearson - The Journal of Foraminiferal …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New biostratigraphic investigations on deep sea cores and outcrop sections have revealed
several shortcomings in currently used tropical to subtropical Eocene planktonic …

Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene Epoch

PN Pearson, BE van Dongen, CJ Nicholas… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth's climate cooled from a period of extreme warmth in the early Eocene Epoch (ca. 50
Ma) to the early Oligocene (ca. 33 Ma), when a large ice cap first appeared on Antarctica …

Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone

F Boscolo-Galazzo, KA Crichton, A Ridgwell… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Theory suggests that the ocean's biological carbon pump, the process by which organic
matter is produced at the surface and transferred to the deep ocean, is sensitive to …

Planktonic foraminifera stable isotopes and water column structure: Disentangling ecological signals

H Birch, HK Coxall, PN Pearson, D Kroon… - Marine …, 2013 - Elsevier
Differential carbon and oxygen stable isotope (δ13C and δ18O) fractionation between
planktonic foraminifera test calcite and sea water related to ecology and life stage confound …

Saltwater intrusion and nitrate pollution in the coastal aquifer of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Y Mtoni, IC Mjemah, C Bakundukize… - Environmental Earth …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Dar es Salaam Quaternary coastal aquifer is a major source of water supply in Dar
es Salaam City used for domestic, agricultural, and industrial uses. However, groundwater …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in the occurrence of extreme precipitation events at the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

MJ Carmichael, RD Pancost, DJ Lunt - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Future global warming is widely anticipated to increase the occurrence of extreme
precipitation events, but such hydrological changes have received limited attention within …

Planktonic foraminiferal turnover, diversity fluctuations and geochemical signals across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary in Tanzania

BS Wade, PN Pearson - Marine Micropaleontology, 2008 - Elsevier
A major turnover in planktonic foraminifera occurred across the Eocene/Oligocene (E/O)
boundary. New drill holes through the E/O boundary in southern Tanzania contain extremely …

The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Lutetian Stage at the Gorrondatxe section, Spain

E Molina, L Alegret, E Apellaniz, G Bernaola… - Episodes Journal of …, 2011 - episodes.org
The GSSP for the base of the Lutetian Stage (early/middle Eocene boundary) is defined at
167.85 metres in the Gorrondatxe sea-cliff section (NW of Bilbao city, Basque Country …