Cold spells in the Nordic Seas during the early Eocene Greenhouse
The early Eocene was characterized by exceptionally high global temperatures and no polar ice. Here, clumped isotope paleothermometry of glendonite calcite from the Danish Basin shows that these were formed in waters below 5 °C, indicating that regionalised cool episodes punctuated the background wa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-09-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18558-7 |