Global decline in ocean ventilation, oxygenation, and productivity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Implications for the benthic extinction

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 263-266

  Winguth, Arne M E ^a   Thomas, Ellen ^b,c   Winguth, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BENTHIC ORGANISMS; CARBON INJECTIONS; CYCLE MODEL; DEEP SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; NEAR-SURFACE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN DEPLETION; OXYGEN LEVELS; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; RAPID TEMPERATURE; ROSS SEA; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; WIND-DRIVEN VERTICAL MIXING;

CARBON; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL WARMING; MIXING; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION;

PRODUCTIVITY;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON CYCLE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STRATIFICATION; VENTILATION;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84858129583     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32529.1     Document Type: Article

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