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DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2240
论文题名:
Persistence of carbon release events through the peak of early Eocene global warmth
作者: Turner S.K.; Sexton P.F.; Charles C.D.; Norris R.D.
刊名: Nature Geoscience
ISSN: 17520894
出版年: 2014
卷: 7, 期:10
起始页码: 748
结束页码: 751
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: carbon cycle ; carbon isotope ; carbonate sediment ; Eocene ; global warming ; greenhouse gas ; isotopic composition ; Paleocene ; Paleocene-Eocene boundary ; persistence ; stable isotope ; Atlantic Ocean ; Atlantic Ocean (Equatorial)
英文摘要: The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (53-50 million years ago) was preceded by approximately six million years of progressive global warming1. This warming was punctuated by a series of rapid hyperthermal warming events triggered by the release of green house gases1-7. Over these six million years, the carbon isotope record suggests that the events became more frequent but smaller in magnitude3,5-7. This pattern has been suggested to reflect a thermodynamic threshold for carbon release that was more easily crossed as global temperature rose, combined with a decrease in the size of carbon reservoirs during extremely warm conditions8-11. Here we present a continuous, 4.25-million-year-long record of the stable isotope composition of carbonate sediments from the equatorial Atlantic, spanning the peak of early Eocene global warmth. A composite of this and pre-existing7,12 records shows that the carbon isotope excursions that identify the hyperthermals exhibit continuity in magnitude and frequency throughout the approximately 10-million-year period covering the onset, peak and termination of the Early Eocene Climate Optimum. We suggest that the carbon cycle processes behind these events, excluding the largest event, the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 56 million years ago), were not exceptional. Instead, we argue that the hyperthermals may reflect orbital forcing of the carbon cycle analogous to the mechanisms proposed13,14 to operate in the cooler Oligocene and Miocene. � 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/106409
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作者单位: School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0244, San Diego, CA, United States; Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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Turner S.K.,Sexton P.F.,Charles C.D.,et al. Persistence of carbon release events through the peak of early Eocene global warmth[J]. Nature Geoscience,2014-01-01,7(10)
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