An abyssal carbonate compensation depth overshoot in the aftermath of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 56 million years ago, thousands of petagrams of carbon were released into the atmosphere and ocean in just a few thousand years, followed by a gradual sequestration over approximately 200,000 years. If silicate weathering is one of the key neg...

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Main Authors: Penman, D, Kirtland-Turner, S, Sexton, P, Norris, R, Dickson, A, Boulila, S, Ridgwell, A, Zeebe, R, Zachos, J, Cameron, A, Westerhold, T, Roehl, U
Format: Journal article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016