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 …

Ocean temperatures through the Phanerozoic reassessed

EL Grossman, MM Joachimski - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

Thermally-induced clumped isotope resetting in belemnite and optical calcites: Towards material-specific kinetics

N Looser, P Petschnig, JD Hemingway… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of carbonate clumped isotope (Δ 47) thermometry in deep-time is often
limited by modification of the original temperature signal by thermal resetting. New modeling …

Early Cretaceous climate for the southern Tethyan Ocean: Insights from the geochemical and paleoecological analyses of extinct cephalopods

T Wang, R Hoffmann, S He, Q Zhang, G Li… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reconstructing temperatures of ancient oceans is important for understanding Earth's
climate in deep time. Belemnites have been used widely to estimate Mesozoic seawater …

The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, BT Huber, SL Wing, DJ Lunt… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

Temperature Dependence of Clumped Isotopes (∆47) in Aragonite

NJ de Winter, R Witbaard, IJ Kocken… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clumped isotope thermometry can independently constrain the formation temperatures of
carbonates, but a lack of precisely temperature‐controlled calibration samples limits its …

Advances and challenges in palaeoenvironmental studies based on oxygen isotope composition of skeletal carbonates and phosphates

H Wierzbowski - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oxygen isotopes are widely used in palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic studies as
they record variations in the precipitation temperature of biogenic carbonates and …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing the magnitude of Early Toarcian (Jurassic) warming using the reordered clumped isotope compositions of belemnites

A Fernandez, C Korte, CV Ullmann, N Looser… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
The magnitude of temperature changes in the Early Jurassic are not well known. Clumped
isotope measurements can potentially be used to provide better constrains, but unfortunately …

Impact of a northern-hemispherical cryosphere on late Pliensbachian–early Toarcian climate and environment evolution

W Ruebsam, L Schwark - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The historical view of an equable Jurassic greenhouse world has been challenged by recent
studies documenting recurrent alternation between contrasting climate modes. Cooling of …

[HTML][HTML] A climate perturbation at the Middle–Late Jurassic Transition? Evaluating the isotopic evidence from south-central England

GD Price, B Heszler, LMT Charlton, J Cox - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Jurassic greenhouse is punctuated by short cooling intervals. Some published oxygen
isotope records of belemnite rostra and fish teeth have been interpreted to reveal a …