A CO2 decrease-driven cooling and increased latitudinal temperature gradient during the mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 97-103

  Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   van Bentum, Elisabeth C ^b   Reichart, Gert Jan ^b   Pross, Jörg ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Newfoundland basin; Ocean Drilling Program Site 1276; Organic carbon burial; Sea surface temperature; TEX86 palaeothermometry

Indexed keywords

CENOMANIAN/TURONIAN; DEEP-MARINE; GLOBAL COOLING; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MID-CRETACEOUS; NEWFOUNDLANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT 2; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRONG COUPLING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME INTERVAL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DRILLING; GREENHOUSES; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

COOLING; CRETACEOUS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEWFOUNDLAND BASIN;

EID: 77950342056     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.027     Document Type: Article

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