The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Earth system changes during the cooling greenhouse phase of the Late Cretaceous: Coniacian-Santonian OAE3 subevents and fundamental variations in organic …

A Mansour, M Wagreich - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coniacian-Santonian (CS) was a time of differentiation in marine
sedimentation, characterized by organic carbon (OC)-rich black shales and carbonates …

GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time

RD Müller, J Cannon, X Qin, RJ Watson… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
GPlates is an open‐source, cross‐platform plate tectonic geographic information system,
enabling the interactive manipulation of plate‐tectonic reconstructions and the visualization …

A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2

YG Zhang, M Pagani, Z Liu… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The alkenone–p CO2 methodology has been used to reconstruct the partial pressure of
ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide (p CO2) for the past 45 million years of Earth's history …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods

A Auderset, S Moretti, B Taphorn, PR Ebner, E Kast… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Dissolved oxygen (O2) is essential for most ocean ecosystems, fuelling organisms'
respiration and facilitating the cycling of carbon and nutrients. Oxygen measurements have …

Nutrients as the dominant control on the spread of anoxia and euxinia across the Cenomanian‐Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE2): Model‐data comparison

FM Monteiro, RD Pancost, A Ridgwell… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Cenomanian‐Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE2) is characterized by large
perturbations in the oxygen and sulfur cycles of the ocean, potentially resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Global Cenozoic paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere oceanic gateways

EO Straume, C Gaina, S Medvedev… - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Northern Hemisphere oceanic gateways has facilitated ocean
circulation changes and may have influenced climatic variations in the Cenozoic time (66 …

Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures

PMJ Douglas, HP Affek, LC Ivany… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Paleoclimate studies suggest that increased global warmth during the Eocene epoch was
greatly amplified at high latitudes, a state that climate models cannot fully reproduce …

[HTML][HTML] Global continental and marine detrital εNd: An updated compilation for use in understanding marine Nd cycling

S Robinson, R Ivanovic, T van de Flierdt, CL Blanchet… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the role of sediment-water interactions in the oceanic cycling of neodymium
(Nd) isotopes is essential for its reliable use as a modern and palaeoceanographic tracer of …

A better-ventilated ocean triggered by Late Cretaceous changes in continental configuration

Y Donnadieu, E Pucéat, M Moiroud… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) are large-scale events of oxygen depletion in the deep ocean
that happened during pre-Cenozoic periods of extreme warmth. Here, to assess the role of …