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Mechanisms of Climate Warming at the End of the Paleocene

Published:1999-07-30 Issue:5428 Volume:285 Page:724-727
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Bains Santo¹,Corfield Richard M.¹,Norris Richard D.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, UK.

2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.

Abstract

An abrupt episode of global warming marked the end of the Paleocene epoch. Oxygen and carbon isotope records from two widely separated sites support the notion that degassing of biogenic methane hydrate may have been an important factor in altering Earth's climate. The data show evidence for multiple injections of methane, separated by intervals in which the carbon cycle was in stasis. Correlations between the two sites suggest that even these small-scale events were global in nature.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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