The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A perturbation of carbon cycle, climate, and biosphere with implications for the future

FA McInerney, SL Wing - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM),∼ 56 Mya, thousands of
petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant …

A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary

SL Wing, GJ Harrington, FA Smith, JI Bloch, DM Boyer… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Rapid global warming of 5° to 10° C during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
(PETM) coincided with major turnover in vertebrate faunas, but previous studies have found …

Carbon-isotope record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Oceanic Anoxic Event from fossil wood and marine carbonate (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal)

SP Hesselbo, HC Jenkyns, LV Duarte… - Earth and Planetary …, 2007 - Elsevier
The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) in the Early Jurassic (∼ 183 Ma ago) was
characterized by widespread near-synchronous deposition of organic-rich shales in marine …

Environment and evolution through the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

PD Gingerich - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2006 - cell.com
The modern orders of mammals, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla and Primates (APP taxa), first
appear in the fossil record at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary, c. 55 million years ago …

Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea: What perturbs the largest habitat on Earth?

E Thomas - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Deep-sea benthic foraminifera live in the largest habitat on Earth, constitute an important
part of its benthic biomass, and form diverse assemblages with common cosmopolitan …

A humid climate state during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

GJ Bowen, DJ Beerling, PL Koch, JC Zachos… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
An abrupt climate warming of 5 to 10° C during the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary thermal
maximum (PETM) 55 Myr ago is linked to the catastrophic release of∼ 1,050–2,100 Gt of …

The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum super greenhouse: biotic and geochemical signatures, age models and mechanisms of global change

A Sluijs, GJ Bowen, H Brinkhuis, LJ Lourens, E Thomas - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a geologically brief episode
of global warming associated with the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary, has been studied …

Thermogenic methane release as a cause for the long duration of the PETM

J Frieling, HH Svensen, S Planke… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)(∼ 56 Ma) was a∼ 170,000-y (∼ 170-
kyr) period of global warming associated with rapid and massive injections of 13C-depleted …

Rapid Asia–Europe–North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

T Smith, KD Rose, PD Gingerich - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
True primates appeared suddenly on all three northern continents during the 100,000-yr-
duration Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum at the beginning of the Eocene,≈ 55.5 mya …