Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7173, 2007, Pages 1218-1221

  Sluijs, Appy ^a   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Bohaty, Steven M ^c   John, Cédric M ^c,e   Zachos, James C ^c   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   Crouch, Erica M ^a,f   Dickens, Gerald R ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; METHANE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LIGHT; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

APECTODINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 37549015657     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06400     Document Type: Article

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