Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
High-resolution stable carbon isotope records for upper Paleocene - lower Eocene sections at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051 and 690 and Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 550 and 577 show numerous rapid (40 - 60 kyr duration) negative excursions of up to 1 per mill. We demonstrate that these transie...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.741863 2024-09-15T18:23:14+00:00 Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Cramer, Benjamin S Wright, James D Kent, Dennis V Aubry, Marie-Pierre MEDIAN LATITUDE: 15.180392 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -1.445348 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -65.161000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -76.357830 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 48.515200 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 157.723300 * DATE/TIME START: 1981-06-30T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 1997-01-27T02:00:00 2003 application/zip, 5 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.741863 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.741863 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.741863 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.741863 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Supplement to: Cramer, Benjamin S; Wright, James D; Kent, Dennis V; Aubry, Marie-Pierre (2003): Orbital climate forcing of d13C excursions in the late Paleocene-early Eocene (chrons C24n–C25n). Paleoceanography, 18(4), 1097, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003PA000909 113-690B 171-1051A 171-1051B 80-550 86-577 Blake Nose North Atlantic Ocean Deep Sea Drilling Project DRILL Drilling/drill rig DSDP Glomar Challenger Joides Resolution Leg113 Leg171B Leg80 Leg86 North Atlantic/PLAIN North Pacific Ocean Ocean Drilling Program ODP South Atlantic Ocean dataset publication series 2003 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.74186310.1029/2003PA000909 2024-08-21T00:02:25Z High-resolution stable carbon isotope records for upper Paleocene - lower Eocene sections at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051 and 690 and Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 550 and 577 show numerous rapid (40 - 60 kyr duration) negative excursions of up to 1 per mill. We demonstrate that these transient decreases are the expected result of nonlinear insolation forcing of the carbon cycle in the context of a long carbon residence time. The transients occur at maxima in Earth's orbital eccentricity, which result in high-amplitude variations in insolation due to forcing by climatic precession. The construction of accurate orbital chronologies for geologic sections older than ~ 35 Ma relies on identifying a high-fidelity recorder of variations in Earth's orbital eccentricity. We use the carbon isotope records as such a recorder, establishing a robust orbitally tuned chronology for latest Paleocene-earliest Eocene events. Moreover, the transient decreases provide a means of precise correlation among the four sites that is independent of magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data at the <10^5-year scale. While the eccentricity-controlled transient decreases bear some resemblance to the much larger-amplitude carbon isotope excursion (CIE) that marks the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, the latter event is found to occur near a minimum in the ~400-kyr eccentricity cycle. Thus the CIE occurred during a time of minimal variability in insolation, the dominant mechanism for forcing climate change on 104-year scales. We argue that this is inconsistent with mechanisms that rely on a threshold climate event to trigger the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum since any threshold would more likely be crossed during a period of high-amplitude climate variations. Other/Unknown Material North Atlantic South Atlantic Ocean PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science ENVELOPE(-76.357830,157.723300,48.515200,-65.161000) |
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113-690B 171-1051A 171-1051B 80-550 86-577 Blake Nose North Atlantic Ocean Deep Sea Drilling Project DRILL Drilling/drill rig DSDP Glomar Challenger Joides Resolution Leg113 Leg171B Leg80 Leg86 North Atlantic/PLAIN North Pacific Ocean Ocean Drilling Program ODP South Atlantic Ocean |
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113-690B 171-1051A 171-1051B 80-550 86-577 Blake Nose North Atlantic Ocean Deep Sea Drilling Project DRILL Drilling/drill rig DSDP Glomar Challenger Joides Resolution Leg113 Leg171B Leg80 Leg86 North Atlantic/PLAIN North Pacific Ocean Ocean Drilling Program ODP South Atlantic Ocean Cramer, Benjamin S Wright, James D Kent, Dennis V Aubry, Marie-Pierre Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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113-690B 171-1051A 171-1051B 80-550 86-577 Blake Nose North Atlantic Ocean Deep Sea Drilling Project DRILL Drilling/drill rig DSDP Glomar Challenger Joides Resolution Leg113 Leg171B Leg80 Leg86 North Atlantic/PLAIN North Pacific Ocean Ocean Drilling Program ODP South Atlantic Ocean |
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High-resolution stable carbon isotope records for upper Paleocene - lower Eocene sections at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051 and 690 and Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 550 and 577 show numerous rapid (40 - 60 kyr duration) negative excursions of up to 1 per mill. We demonstrate that these transient decreases are the expected result of nonlinear insolation forcing of the carbon cycle in the context of a long carbon residence time. The transients occur at maxima in Earth's orbital eccentricity, which result in high-amplitude variations in insolation due to forcing by climatic precession. The construction of accurate orbital chronologies for geologic sections older than ~ 35 Ma relies on identifying a high-fidelity recorder of variations in Earth's orbital eccentricity. We use the carbon isotope records as such a recorder, establishing a robust orbitally tuned chronology for latest Paleocene-earliest Eocene events. Moreover, the transient decreases provide a means of precise correlation among the four sites that is independent of magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data at the <10^5-year scale. While the eccentricity-controlled transient decreases bear some resemblance to the much larger-amplitude carbon isotope excursion (CIE) that marks the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, the latter event is found to occur near a minimum in the ~400-kyr eccentricity cycle. Thus the CIE occurred during a time of minimal variability in insolation, the dominant mechanism for forcing climate change on 104-year scales. We argue that this is inconsistent with mechanisms that rely on a threshold climate event to trigger the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum since any threshold would more likely be crossed during a period of high-amplitude climate variations. |
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Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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Isotope measurements from late Paleocene - early Eocene of 5 cores from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
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isotope measurements from late paleocene - early eocene of 5 cores from atlantic and pacific ocean |
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MEDIAN LATITUDE: 15.180392 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -1.445348 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -65.161000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -76.357830 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 48.515200 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 157.723300 * DATE/TIME START: 1981-06-30T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 1997-01-27T02:00:00 |
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Supplement to: Cramer, Benjamin S; Wright, James D; Kent, Dennis V; Aubry, Marie-Pierre (2003): Orbital climate forcing of d13C excursions in the late Paleocene-early Eocene (chrons C24n–C25n). Paleoceanography, 18(4), 1097, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003PA000909 |
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