Atmospheric science: Marked decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Paleogene

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5734, 2005, Pages 600-603

  Pagani, Mark ^a   Zachos, James C ^b   Freeman, Katherine H ^c   Tipple, Brett ^a   Bohaty, Stephen ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEA LEVEL;

DEEP SEA; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE CLIMATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGA; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT; POACEAE; TIME;

ALGAE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ICE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANTS; POACEAE; TIME;

EID: 22744450037     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110063     Document Type: Article

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63. The authors thank two anonymous reviewers who helped improve the quality of the manuscript. We also thank B. Bemer and K. Turekian for coffee and animated conversations that helped develop and inspire ideas. This work was funded bv a erant from NSF.