Silicate weathering as a feedback and forcing in Earth's climate and carbon cycle

DE Penman, JKC Rugenstein, DE Ibarra… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Current understanding of the long-term carbon cycle posits that Earth's climate is stabilized
by a negative feedback involving CO 2 consumption by chemical weathering of silicate …

Flood basalts and mass extinctions

ME Clapham, PR Renne - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Flood basalts were Earth's largest volcanic episodes that, along with related intrusions, were
often emplaced rapidly and coincided with environmental disruption: oceanic anoxic events …

Evolution of the global carbon cycle and climate regulation on earth

TT Isson, NJ Planavsky, LA Coogan… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of stabilizing feedbacks within Earth's climate system is generally thought to
be necessary for the persistence of liquid water and life. Over the course of Earth's history …

Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse

E Anagnostou, EH John, TL Babila, PF Sexton… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite recent advances, the link between the evolution of atmospheric CO2 and climate
during the Eocene greenhouse remains uncertain. In particular, modelling studies suggest …

Volcanic CO2 degassing postdates thermogenic carbon emission during the end-Permian mass extinction

Y Wu, Y Cui, D Chu, H Song, J Tong, J Dal Corso… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are widely assumed to be the driver of the end-
Permian mass extinction (EPME). However, the rate of and total CO2 released, and whether …

Revisiting the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum “Carbon Cycle Conundrum” With New Estimates of Atmospheric pCO2 From Boron Isotopes

MJ Henehan, KM Edgar, GL Foster… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a gradual warming event and
carbon cycle perturbation that occurred between 40.5 and 40.1 Ma. A number of …

Widespread warming before and elevated barium burial during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence for methane hydrate release?

J Frieling, F Peterse, DJ Lunt, SM Bohaty… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Current climate change may induce positive carbon cycle feedbacks that amplify
anthropogenic warming on time scales of centuries to millennia. Similar feedbacks might …

Marine siliceous ecosystem decline led to sustained anomalous Early Triassic warmth

TT Isson, S Zhang, KV Lau, S Rauzi, NJ Tosca… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In the wake of rapid CO2 release tied to the emplacement of the Siberian Traps, elevated
temperatures were maintained for over five million years during the end-Permian biotic …

Dynamics of sediment flux to a bathyal continental margin section through the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

T Dunkley Jones, HR Manners, M Hoggett… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
The response of the Earth system to greenhouse-gas-driven warming is of critical
importance for the future trajectory of our planetary environment. Hyperthermal events–past …

The Eurasian epicontinental sea was an important carbon sink during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum

MY Kaya, G Dupont-Nivet, J Frieling, C Fioroni… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (ca. 56 million years ago) offers a
primary analogue for future global warming and carbon cycle recovery. Yet, where and how …