Mid-Pliocene Mg/Ca and clumped isotope bottom water temperatures from ODP Site 138-849 and IODP Site 303-U1308

• Main Authors: Braaten, Anna Hauge, Jakob, Kim A, Ho, Sze Ling, Friedrich, Oliver, Galaasen, Eirik Vinje, De Schepper, Stijn, Wilson, Paul A, Meckler, Anna Nele
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: bottom water temperature; Clumped isotopes; Foraminifera; Mg/Ca; mid-Pliocene warm period; MIS M2; stable isotope geochemistry; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.960832; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960832

The mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 million years ago) is an important possible analogue to future, warmer-than-present climates. This interval is the most recent period in Earth's history of sustained global warmth, when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were comparable to the early 21th century, global ic...