Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

@article{Cui2011SlowRO,
  title={Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum},
  author={Ying Cui and Lee R. Kump and Andy Ridgwell and Adam J. Charles and Christopher K. Junium and Aaron F. Diefendorf and Katherine H. Freeman and Nathan Mark Urban and Ian C. Harding},
  journal={Nature Geoscience},
  year={2011},
  volume={4},
  pages={481-485}
}
A brief period of warming 55.9 Myr ago has been attributed to the release of massive amounts of carbon. Geochemical and model data suggest the peak rate of carbon emission during this interval was relatively slow, and significantly lower than present-day levels of carbon emissions to the atmosphere. 
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