Enhanced terrestrial carbon export from East Antarctica during the early Eocene

• Published in: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
• Main Authors: Inglis, Gordon N., Toney, Jaime L., Zhu, Jiang, Poulsen, Christopher J., Röhl, Ursula, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Pross, Jörg, Cramwinckel, Margot, Krishnan, Srinath, Pagani, Mark, Bijl, Peter K., Bendle, James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2022
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/263336/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/263336/1/263336.pdf

Terrestrial organic carbon (TerrOC) acts as an important CO2 sink when transported via rivers to the ocean and sequestered in coastal marine sediments. This mechanism might help to modulate atmospheric CO2 levels over short- and long timescales (103 to 106 years), but its importance during past warm...