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SUBMITTER: Wright JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3791743 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright James D JD Schaller Morgan F MF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130916 40
The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) and associated carbon isotope excursion (CIE) are often touted as the best geologic analog for the current anthropogenic rise in pCO2. However, a causal mechanism for the PETM CIE remains unidentified because of large uncertainties in the duration of the CIE's onset. Here, we report on a sequence of rhythmic sedimentary couplets comprising the Paleocene/Eocene Marlboro Clay (Salisbury Embayment). These couplets have corresponding δ(18)O cycles that imp ...[more]