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 …

Toward an improved understanding of the marine barium cycle and the application of marine barite as a paleoproductivity proxy

SC Carter, A Paytan, EM Griffith - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Marine barite (BaSO4) is a relatively ubiquitous, though minor, component of ocean
sediments. Modern studies of the accumulation of barite in ocean sediments have …

Controls on the barium isotope compositions of marine sediments

L Bridgestock, YT Hsieh, D Porcelli, WB Homoky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The accumulation of barium (Ba) in marine sediments is considered to be a robust proxy for
export production, although this application can be limited by uncertainty in BaSO 4 …

Eustatic change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the epicontinental Tarim seaway

J Jiang, X Hu, J Li, E Garzanti, S Jiang, Y Cui… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) offers an excellent opportunity
to study the ecological and environmental responses to global warming. Discussing the so …

Coupled microbial bloom and oxygenation decline recorded by magnetofossils during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

L Chang, RJ Harrison, F Zeng, TA Berndt… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding marine environmental change and associated biological turnover across the
Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM;~ 56 Ma)—the most pronounced Cenozoic …

Carbon sequestration during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum by an efficient biological pump

Z Ma, E Gray, E Thomas, B Murphy, J Zachos… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A perturbation of the carbon cycle and biosphere, linked to globally increased temperatures
about 55.9 million years ago, characterized the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Its …

Global decline in ocean ventilation, oxygenation, and productivity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Implications for the benthic extinction

AME Winguth, E Thomas, C Winguth - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The prominent global warming event at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (55 Ma), referred
to as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was characterized by rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Water column barium sulfate dissolution and shielding by organic matter aggregates: Implications for the pelagic barite proxy

T Light, M Garcia, JC Prairie, F Martínez-Ruiz, R Norris - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Pelagic barite (BaSO 4) and related proxies are useful tools for reconstructing the marine
carbon cycle. The factors controlling pelagic barite dissolution in the ocean water column …

Increased export production during recovery from the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum constrained by sedimentary Ba isotopes

L Bridgestock, YT Hsieh, D Porcelli… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM;∼ 56 Ma) was a transient global
warming event associated with a huge perturbation to the global carbon cycle. Changes in …

Bentho‐pelagic decoupling: The marine biological carbon pump during Eocene hyperthermals

EM Griffith, E Thomas, AR Lewis… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Future environmental change may profoundly affect oceanic ecosystems in a complex way,
due to the synergy between rising temperatures, reduction in mixing and upwelling due to …