Slow release of fossil carbon during the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 481-485

  Cui, Ying ^a   Kump, Lee R ^a   Ridgwell, Andy J ^b   Charles, Adam J ^c   Junium, Christopher K ^a,d   Diefendorf, Aaron F ^a,e   Freeman, Katherine H ^a   Urban, Nathan M ^a,f   Harding, Ian C ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPSITHERMAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79960003210     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1179     Document Type: Article

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