Onset of carbon isotope excursion at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum took millennia, not 13 years

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Zeebe, Richard E ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^b   Ridgwell, Andy ^c   Sluijs, Appy ^d   Thomas, Ellen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ISOTOPE; SEA WATER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EOCENE; LETTER; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WARMING;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY;

EID: 84896957573     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321177111     Document Type: Letter

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