Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event
The Weissert Event similar to 133 million years ago marked a profound global cooling that punctuated the Early Cretaceous greenhouse. We present modelling, high-resolution bulk organic carbon isotopes and chronostratigraphically calibrated sea surface temperature (SSTs) based on an organic paleother...
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ftubkoeln:oai:USBKOELN.ub.uni-koeln.de:59998 2023-05-15T14:00:19+02:00 Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event Cavalheiro, Liyenne Wagner, Thomas Steinig, Sebastian Bottini, Cinzia Dummann, Wolf Esegbue, Onoriode Gambacorta, Gabriele Giraldo-Gomez, Victor Farnsworth, Alexander Floegel, Sascha Hofmann, Peter Lunt, Daniel J. Rethemeyer, Janet Torricelli, Stefano Erba, Elisabetta 2021 https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/59998/ eng eng NATURE PORTFOLIO Cavalheiro, Liyenne, Wagner, Thomas orcid:0000-0001-5006-625X , Steinig, Sebastian orcid:0000-0003-3700-1106 , Bottini, Cinzia, Dummann, Wolf, Esegbue, Onoriode, Gambacorta, Gabriele, Giraldo-Gomez, Victor, Farnsworth, Alexander, Floegel, Sascha, Hofmann, Peter, Lunt, Daniel J., Rethemeyer, Janet orcid:0000-0001-6698-4186 , Torricelli, Stefano and Erba, Elisabetta (2021). Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event. Nat. Commun., 12 (1). BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO. ISSN 2041-1723 ddc:no doc-type:article publishedVersion 2021 ftubkoeln 2022-11-09T07:34:38Z The Weissert Event similar to 133 million years ago marked a profound global cooling that punctuated the Early Cretaceous greenhouse. We present modelling, high-resolution bulk organic carbon isotopes and chronostratigraphically calibrated sea surface temperature (SSTs) based on an organic paleothermometer (the TEX86 proxy), which capture the Weissert Event in the semi-enclosed Weddell Sea basin, offshore Antarctica (paleolatitude similar to 54 degrees S; paleowater depth similar to 500 meters). We document a similar to 3-4 degrees C drop in SST coinciding with the Weissert cold end, and converge the Weddell Sea data, climate simulations and available worldwide multi-proxy based temperature data towards one unifying solution providing a best-fit between all lines of evidence. The outcome confirms a 3.0 degrees C (+/- 1.7 degrees C) global mean surface cooling across the Weissert Event, which translates into a similar to 40% drop in atmospheric pCO(2) over a period of similar to 700 thousand years. Consistent with geologic evidence, this pCO(2) drop favoured the potential build-up of local polar ice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Weddell Sea Cologne University: KUPS Weddell Weddell Sea |
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ddc:no Cavalheiro, Liyenne Wagner, Thomas Steinig, Sebastian Bottini, Cinzia Dummann, Wolf Esegbue, Onoriode Gambacorta, Gabriele Giraldo-Gomez, Victor Farnsworth, Alexander Floegel, Sascha Hofmann, Peter Lunt, Daniel J. Rethemeyer, Janet Torricelli, Stefano Erba, Elisabetta Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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The Weissert Event similar to 133 million years ago marked a profound global cooling that punctuated the Early Cretaceous greenhouse. We present modelling, high-resolution bulk organic carbon isotopes and chronostratigraphically calibrated sea surface temperature (SSTs) based on an organic paleothermometer (the TEX86 proxy), which capture the Weissert Event in the semi-enclosed Weddell Sea basin, offshore Antarctica (paleolatitude similar to 54 degrees S; paleowater depth similar to 500 meters). We document a similar to 3-4 degrees C drop in SST coinciding with the Weissert cold end, and converge the Weddell Sea data, climate simulations and available worldwide multi-proxy based temperature data towards one unifying solution providing a best-fit between all lines of evidence. The outcome confirms a 3.0 degrees C (+/- 1.7 degrees C) global mean surface cooling across the Weissert Event, which translates into a similar to 40% drop in atmospheric pCO(2) over a period of similar to 700 thousand years. Consistent with geologic evidence, this pCO(2) drop favoured the potential build-up of local polar ice. |
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Cavalheiro, Liyenne Wagner, Thomas Steinig, Sebastian Bottini, Cinzia Dummann, Wolf Esegbue, Onoriode Gambacorta, Gabriele Giraldo-Gomez, Victor Farnsworth, Alexander Floegel, Sascha Hofmann, Peter Lunt, Daniel J. Rethemeyer, Janet Torricelli, Stefano Erba, Elisabetta |
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Cavalheiro, Liyenne Wagner, Thomas Steinig, Sebastian Bottini, Cinzia Dummann, Wolf Esegbue, Onoriode Gambacorta, Gabriele Giraldo-Gomez, Victor Farnsworth, Alexander Floegel, Sascha Hofmann, Peter Lunt, Daniel J. Rethemeyer, Janet Torricelli, Stefano Erba, Elisabetta |
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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event |
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impact of global cooling on early cretaceous high pco(2) world during the weissert event |
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Cavalheiro, Liyenne, Wagner, Thomas orcid:0000-0001-5006-625X , Steinig, Sebastian orcid:0000-0003-3700-1106 , Bottini, Cinzia, Dummann, Wolf, Esegbue, Onoriode, Gambacorta, Gabriele, Giraldo-Gomez, Victor, Farnsworth, Alexander, Floegel, Sascha, Hofmann, Peter, Lunt, Daniel J., Rethemeyer, Janet orcid:0000-0001-6698-4186 , Torricelli, Stefano and Erba, Elisabetta (2021). Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO(2) world during the Weissert Event. Nat. Commun., 12 (1). BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO. ISSN 2041-1723 |
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