Geochemical and palynological measurements from the ODP Leg 189 at Site 1172 on the East Tasman Plateau

• Main Authors: Sluijs, Appy, Bijl, Peter K, Schouten, Stefan, Röhl, Ursula, Reichart, Gert-Jan, Brinkhuis, Henk
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: 189-1172D; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg189; MARUM; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Tasman Sea; Antarctic; Arctic; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.756399; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.756399

A brief (~150 kyr) period of widespread global average surface warming marks the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, ~56 million years ago. This so-called "Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum" (PETM) is associated with the massive injection of 13C-depleted carbon, reflected in...