Environmental Changes on the North American Mid-Atlantic Shelf During the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum

• Main Author: Ballaron, Edward Arrizon
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2018
• Subjects: Paleoclimate science; Geology; Geochemistry; Carbon; Mg/Ca; Oxygen; PETM; Salinity; Stable Isotope; Dover; Salisbury; Wilson Lake; Ocean acidification; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6sh3h78c

Environmental Changes on the North American Mid-Atlantic Shelf During the Paleocene Eocene Thermal MaximumEdward A. BallaronThe Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a large hyperthermal during the Cenozoic (~56 Ma) is characterized by a massive injection of depleted carbon into global reservoirs...