Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

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 …

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

[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 …

Mid-Cretaceous marine Os isotope evidence for heterogeneous cause of oceanic anoxic events

H Matsumoto, R Coccioni, F Frontalini, K Shirai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During the mid-Cretaceous, the Earth experienced several environmental perturbations,
including an extremely warm climate and Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). Submarine …

Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

CT Edwards, MR Saltzman, DL Royer, DA Fike - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
The largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal life quadrupled genus-level diversity
towards the end of the Ordovician Period about 450 million years ago. A leading hypothesis …

Molecular fossils from phytoplankton reveal secular Pco2 trend over the Phanerozoic

CR Witkowski, JWH Weijers, B Blais, S Schouten… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Past changes in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (P co2) have had a major
impact on earth system dynamics; yet, reconstructing secular trends of past P co2 remains a …

Abrupt episode of mid-Cretaceous ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanism

MM Jones, BB Sageman, D Selby, AD Jacobson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Large-igneous-province volcanic activity during the mid-Cretaceous triggered a global-scale
episode of reduced marine oxygen levels known as Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 approximately …

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 …

Placing our current 'hyperthermal'in the context of rapid climate change in our geological past

GL Foster, P Hull, DJ Lunt… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
'… there are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known
unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also …