Termination of global warmth at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary through productivity feedback
@article{Bains2000TerminationOG, title={Termination of global warmth at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary through productivity feedback}, author={Santo Bains and Richard D. Norris and Richard M. Corfield and Kristina Faul}, journal={Nature}, year={2000}, volume={407}, pages={171-174} }
The onset of the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum (about 55 Myr ago) was marked by global surface temperatures warming by 5–7 °C over approximately 30,000 yr (ref. 1), probably because of enhanced mantle outgassing and the pulsed release of ∼1,500 gigatonnes of methane carbon from decomposing gas-hydrate reservoirs. The aftermath of this rapid, intense and global warming event may be the best example in the geological record of the response of the Earth to high atmospheric carbon dioxide…
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