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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Main Authors: Madeleine L. Vickers, Sabine K. Lengger, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Nicolas Thibault, Bo Pagh Schultz, Alvaro Fernandez, Clemens V. Ullmann, Paul McCormack, Christian J. Bjerrum, Jan Audun Rasmussen, Iben Winther Hougård, Christoph Korte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18558-7