A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, DJ Lunt, IP Montañez, BT Huber… - science, 2024 - science.org
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into
the dynamical limits of Earth's climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and …

Deep carbon recycling viewed from global plate tectonics

M Zhang, S Xu, Y Sano - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Plate tectonics plays an essential role in the redistribution of life-essential volatile elements
between Earth's interior and surface, whereby our planet has been well tuned to maintain …

The Cretaceous world: plate tectonics, palaeogeography and palaeoclimate

CR Scotese, C Vérard, L Burgener… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The tectonics, geography and climate of the Cretaceous world were very different from the
modern world. At the start of the Cretaceous, the supercontinent of Pangaea had just begun …

Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene

CR Witkowski, AS von der Heydt, PJ Valdes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Constraining the relationship between temperature and atmospheric concentrations of
carbon dioxide (p CO2) is essential to model near-future climate. Here, we reconstruct p …

Rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 marked the end of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age

H Jurikova, C Garbelli, R Whiteford, T Reeves… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Atmospheric CO2 is thought to play a fundamental role in Earth's climate regulation. Yet, for
much of Earth's geological past, atmospheric CO2 has been poorly constrained, hindering …

Eocene maar sediments record warming of up to 3.5 C during a hyperthermal event 47.2 million years ago

C Schmitt, I Vasiliev, N Meijer, J Brugger… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Eocene hyperthermal events reflect profound perturbations of the global carbon cycle. Most
of our knowledge about their onset, timing, and rates originates from marine records. Hence …

Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

M Li, LR Kump, A Ridgwell, JE Tierney, GJ Hakim… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, a climate event 56 million years ago,
was characterized by rapid carbon release and extensive ocean acidification. However, our …

[HTML][HTML] Boron isotope pH calibration of a shallow dwelling benthic nummulitid foraminifera

D Coenen, D Evans, H Hauzer, R Nambiar… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
The boron isotope palaeo-pH/CO 2 proxy is one of the key quantitative tools available to
reconstruct past changes in the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere. In particular …