Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review

AF Diefendorf, EJ Freimuth - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Terrestrial plant biomarkers and their carbon isotopes provide insights into carbon cycling,
paleovegetation and paleoclimate, ranging in scale from local to global. Over the past …

Molecular paleohydrology: interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthesizing organisms

D Sachse, I Billault, GJ Bowen… - Annual Review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen-isotopic abundances of lipid biomarkers are emerging as important proxies in the
study of ancient environments and ecosystems. A decade ago, pioneering studies made use …

Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

JE Tierney, J Zhu, M Li, A Ridgwell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; 56 Ma) is one of our best geological
analogs for understanding climate dynamics in a “greenhouse” world. However, proxy data …

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 …

[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 …

Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

A Sluijs, S Schouten, M Pagani, M Woltering… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum,∼ 55 million years ago, was a brief
period of widespread, extreme climatic warming,,, that was associated with massive …

Production of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past

AF Diefendorf, KH Freeman, SL Wing… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Leaf waxes (ie, n-alkyl lipids or n-alkanes) are land-plant biomarkers widely used to
reconstruct changes in climate and the carbon isotopic composition of the atmosphere …

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 …

Hydrological control of river and seawater lithium isotopes

F Zhang, M Dellinger, RG Hilton, J Yu, MB Allen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Seawater lithium isotopes (δ7Li) record changes over Earth history, including a∼ 9‰
increase during the Cenozoic interpreted as reflecting either a change in continental silicate …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological and associated biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

MJ Carmichael, GN Inglis, MPS Badger… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) hyperthermal,~ 56 million years
ago (Ma), is the most dramatic example of abrupt Cenozoic global warming. During the …