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    PETM onset took millennia, not 13 years [Physical Sciences] (2014)
    National Academy of Sciences
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    Publication Date: 2014-03-26
    Description: The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) may represent the best paleo-analog for rapid and massive carbon release to the ocean and atmosphere. Thus, constraining the carbon release rate at its onset is critical. Wright and Schaller (1) use records from apparently rhythmically layered shelf sediments to argue that the layering is...
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    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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    Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean (2009)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
    Description: Relative to the present day, meridional temperature gradients in the Early Eocene age ( approximately 56-53 Myr ago) were unusually low, with slightly warmer equatorial regions but with much warmer subtropical Arctic and mid-latitude climates. By the end of the Eocene epoch ( approximately 34 Myr ago), the first major Antarctic ice sheets had appeared, suggesting that major cooling had taken place. Yet the global transition into this icehouse climate remains poorly constrained, as only a few temperature records are available portraying the Cenozoic climatic evolution of the high southern latitudes. Here we present a uniquely continuous and chronostratigraphically well-calibrated TEX(86) record of sea surface temperature (SST) from an ocean sediment core in the East Tasman Plateau (palaeolatitude approximately 65 degrees S). We show that southwest Pacific SSTs rose above present-day tropical values (to approximately 34 degrees C) during the Early Eocene age ( approximately 53 Myr ago) and had gradually decreased to about 21 degrees C by the early Late Eocene age ( approximately 36 Myr ago). Our results imply that there was almost no latitudinal SST gradient between subequatorial and subpolar regions during the Early Eocene age (55-50 Myr ago). Thereafter, the latitudinal gradient markedly increased. In theory, if Eocene cooling was largely driven by a decrease in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, additional processes are required to explain the relative stability of tropical SSTs given that there was more significant cooling at higher latitudes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bijl, Peter K -- Schouten, Stefan -- Sluijs, Appy -- Reichart, Gert-Jan -- Zachos, James C -- Brinkhuis, Henk -- England -- Nature. 2009 Oct 8;461(7265):776-9. doi: 10.1038/nature08399.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Palaeoecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands. p.k.bijl@uu.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19812670" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antarctic Regions ; Biological Evolution ; Climate ; Geologic Sediments/analysis/chemistry ; History, Ancient ; Ice Cover ; Oxygen Isotopes ; Pacific Ocean ; Plankton/metabolism ; Seawater/*analysis ; *Temperature ; Water Movements
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Transient Middle Eocene atmospheric CO(2) and temperature variations (2010)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-06
    Description: The long-term warmth of the Eocene (~56 to 34 million years ago) is commonly associated with elevated partial pressure of atmospheric carbon dioxide (pCO(2)). However, a direct relationship between the two has not been established for short-term climate perturbations. We reconstructed changes in both pCO(2) and temperature over an episode of transient global warming called the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO; ~40 million years ago). Organic molecular paleothermometry indicates a warming of southwest Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) by 3 degrees to 6 degrees C. Reconstructions of pCO(2) indicate a concomitant increase by a factor of 2 to 3. The marked consistency between SST and pCO(2) trends during the MECO suggests that elevated pCO(2) played a major role in global warming during the MECO.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bijl, Peter K -- Houben, Alexander J P -- Schouten, Stefan -- Bohaty, Steven M -- Sluijs, Appy -- Reichart, Gert-Jan -- Sinninghe Damste, Jaap S -- Brinkhuis, Henk -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Nov 5;330(6005):819-21. doi: 10.1126/science.1193654.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biomarine Sciences, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands. p.k.bijl@uu.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21051636" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    The geological record of ocean acidification (2012)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-03
    Description: Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however, assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations are limited by their reduced ecologic complexity and sample period, respectively. In contrast, the geological record contains long-term evidence for a variety of global environmental perturbations, including ocean acidification plus their associated biotic responses. We review events exhibiting evidence for elevated atmospheric CO(2), global warming, and ocean acidification over the past ~300 million years of Earth's history, some with contemporaneous extinction or evolutionary turnover among marine calcifiers. Although similarities exist, no past event perfectly parallels future projections in terms of disrupting the balance of ocean carbonate chemistry-a consequence of the unprecedented rapidity of CO(2) release currently taking place.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Honisch, Barbel -- Ridgwell, Andy -- Schmidt, Daniela N -- Thomas, Ellen -- Gibbs, Samantha J -- Sluijs, Appy -- Zeebe, Richard -- Kump, Lee -- Martindale, Rowan C -- Greene, Sarah E -- Kiessling, Wolfgang -- Ries, Justin -- Zachos, James C -- Royer, Dana L -- Barker, Stephen -- Marchitto, Thomas M Jr -- Moyer, Ryan -- Pelejero, Carles -- Ziveri, Patrizia -- Foster, Gavin L -- Williams, Branwen -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 2;335(6072):1058-63. doi: 10.1126/science.1208277.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. hoenisch@ldeo.columbia.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22383840" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Biological ; Animals ; *Aquatic Organisms ; Atmosphere ; Carbon Dioxide ; Carbonates/analysis ; *Ecosystem ; Extinction, Biological ; Forecasting ; Fossils ; *Geological Phenomena ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Oceans and Seas ; Seawater/*chemistry
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    Frameshift mutants of beta amyloid precursor protein and ubiquitin-B in Alzheimer's and Down patients (1998)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1998-01-31
    Description: The cerebral cortex of Alzheimer's and Down syndrome patients is characterized by the presence of protein deposits in neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plaques, and neuropil threads. These structures were shown to contain forms of beta amyloid precursor protein and ubiquitin-B that are aberrant (+1 proteins) in the carboxyl terminus. The +1 proteins were not found in young control patients, whereas the presence of ubiquitin-B+1 in elderly control patients may indicate early stages of neurodegeneration. The two species of +1 proteins displayed cellular colocalization, suggesting a common origin, operating at the transcriptional level or by posttranscriptional editing of RNA. This type of transcript mutation is likely an important factor in the widely occurring nonfamilial early- and late-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉van Leeuwen, F W -- de Kleijn, D P -- van den Hurk, H H -- Neubauer, A -- Sonnemans, M A -- Sluijs, J A -- Koycu, S -- Ramdjielal, R D -- Salehi, A -- Martens, G J -- Grosveld, F G -- Peter, J -- Burbach, H -- Hol, E M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 9;279(5348):242-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate School for Neurosciences Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. f.van.leeuwen@nih.knaw.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9422699" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aged ; Aging/genetics ; Alzheimer Disease/*genetics/metabolism/pathology ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/analysis/chemistry/*genetics ; Base Sequence ; *Brain Chemistry ; Cerebral Cortex/chemistry/pathology ; Cloning, Molecular ; Down Syndrome/*genetics/metabolism/pathology ; Female ; *Frameshift Mutation ; Hippocampus/chemistry/pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neurites/chemistry ; Neurofibrillary Tangles/chemistry ; Neuropil/chemistry ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; RNA Editing ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Sequence Deletion ; Transcription, Genetic ; Ubiquitins/analysis/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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    Rapid acidification of the ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (2005)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2005-06-11
    Description: The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) has been attributed to the rapid release of approximately 2000 x 10(9) metric tons of carbon in the form of methane. In theory, oxidation and ocean absorption of this carbon should have lowered deep-sea pH, thereby triggering a rapid (〈10,000-year) shoaling of the calcite compensation depth (CCD), followed by gradual recovery. Here we present geochemical data from five new South Atlantic deep-sea sections that constrain the timing and extent of massive sea-floor carbonate dissolution coincident with the PETM. The sections, from between 2.7 and 4.8 kilometers water depth, are marked by a prominent clay layer, the character of which indicates that the CCD shoaled rapidly (〈10,000 years) by more than 2 kilometers and recovered gradually (〉100,000 years). These findings indicate that a large mass of carbon (〉〉2000 x 10(9) metric tons of carbon) dissolved in the ocean at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary and that permanent sequestration of this carbon occurred through silicate weathering feedback.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zachos, James C -- Rohl, Ursula -- Schellenberg, Stephen A -- Sluijs, Appy -- Hodell, David A -- Kelly, Daniel C -- Thomas, Ellen -- Nicolo, Micah -- Raffi, Isabella -- Lourens, Lucas J -- McCarren, Heather -- Kroon, Dick -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jun 10;308(5728):1611-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Earth Sciences Department, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. jzachos@emerald.uscs.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15947184" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Comparing sea water temperature proxy records for the past 90 Myrs from the shallow shelf record Bass River, New Jersey (2019)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2019
    Description: Abstract We present a multi‐proxy (foraminifer Mg/Ca, δ18O, ∆47, and Sr/Ca, and biomarker TEX86H, MATmrs) low‐resolution paleotemperature record based on seven sets of high‐resolution time series from the late Cretaceous to Miocene from the Ocean Drilling Program Bass River site, New Jersey Shelf, North Atlantic. Along with insight into long‐term climate evolution, this allows testing for internal consistency between proxies. The bottom water temperatures (BWT) reconstructed using benthic δ18O and Mg/Ca‐values show good agreement in recorded trends with the TEX86H sea surface and shallow subsurface temperature record, and with the stacked global benthic oxygen isotope record. The Mg/Ca‐based BWTs are higher than the δ18O‐based BWTs, likely due to uncertainty in the assumptions associated with the Mg/Ca calibration to sea water Mg/Ca. Absolute δ18O‐based BWT reconstructions are supported by clumped isotope paleothermometry. The agreement in main trends of the independent paleotemperature proxies indicates that the underlying assumed mechanisms for the different proxy relations to temperature stayed largely intact back to at least 90 Ma. Consistent differences in absolute temperature values highlight however, that a better understanding of the individual proxies is required in order to achieve accurate absolute temperature reconstructions.
    Print ISSN: 0883-8305
    Electronic ISSN: 2572-4525
    Topics: Geosciences
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    A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth (2012)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-31
    Description: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and climate are regulated on geological timescales by the balance between carbon input from volcanic and metamorphic outgassing and its removal by weathering feedbacks; these feedbacks involve the erosion of silicate rocks and organic-carbon-bearing rocks. The integrated effect of these processes is reflected in the calcium carbonate compensation depth, which is the oceanic depth at which calcium carbonate is dissolved. Here we present a carbonate accumulation record that covers the past 53 million years from a depth transect in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The carbonate compensation depth tracks long-term ocean cooling, deepening from 3.0-3.5 kilometres during the early Cenozoic (approximately 55 million years ago) to 4.6 kilometres at present, consistent with an overall Cenozoic increase in weathering. We find large superimposed fluctuations in carbonate compensation depth during the middle and late Eocene. Using Earth system models, we identify changes in weathering and the mode of organic-carbon delivery as two key processes to explain these large-scale Eocene fluctuations of the carbonate compensation depth.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Palike, Heiko -- Lyle, Mitchell W -- Nishi, Hiroshi -- Raffi, Isabella -- Ridgwell, Andy -- Gamage, Kusali -- Klaus, Adam -- Acton, Gary -- Anderson, Louise -- Backman, Jan -- Baldauf, Jack -- Beltran, Catherine -- Bohaty, Steven M -- Bown, Paul -- Busch, William -- Channell, Jim E T -- Chun, Cecily O J -- Delaney, Margaret -- Dewangan, Pawan -- Dunkley Jones, Tom -- Edgar, Kirsty M -- Evans, Helen -- Fitch, Peter -- Foster, Gavin L -- Gussone, Nikolaus -- Hasegawa, Hitoshi -- Hathorne, Ed C -- Hayashi, Hiroki -- Herrle, Jens O -- Holbourn, Ann -- Hovan, Steve -- Hyeong, Kiseong -- Iijima, Koichi -- Ito, Takashi -- Kamikuri, Shin-ichi -- Kimoto, Katsunori -- Kuroda, Junichiro -- Leon-Rodriguez, Lizette -- Malinverno, Alberto -- Moore, Ted C Jr -- Murphy, Brandon H -- Murphy, Daniel P -- Nakamura, Hideto -- Ogane, Kaoru -- Ohneiser, Christian -- Richter, Carl -- Robinson, Rebecca -- Rohling, Eelco J -- Romero, Oscar -- Sawada, Ken -- Scher, Howie -- Schneider, Leah -- Sluijs, Appy -- Takata, Hiroyuki -- Tian, Jun -- Tsujimoto, Akira -- Wade, Bridget S -- Westerhold, Thomas -- Wilkens, Roy -- Williams, Trevor -- Wilson, Paul A -- Yamamoto, Yuhji -- Yamamoto, Shinya -- Yamazaki, Toshitsugu -- Zeebe, Richard E -- England -- Nature. 2012 Aug 30;488(7413):609-14. doi: 10.1038/nature11360.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK. hpaelike@marum.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22932385" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Altitude ; Atmosphere/chemistry ; Calcium Carbonate/*analysis ; *Carbon Cycle ; Carbon Dioxide/analysis ; Diatoms/metabolism ; Foraminifera/metabolism ; Geologic Sediments/chemistry ; Global Warming/history/statistics & numerical data ; History, 21st Century ; History, Ancient ; Marine Biology ; Oxygen/metabolism ; Pacific Ocean ; Seawater/*chemistry ; Temperature
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    Reorganization of Southern Ocean plankton ecosystem at the onset of Antarctic glaciation (2013)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2013-04-20
    Description: The circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean is an important region for global marine food webs and carbon cycling because of sea-ice formation and its unique plankton ecosystem. However, the mechanisms underlying the installation of this distinct ecosystem and the geological timing of its development remain unknown. Here, we show, on the basis of fossil marine dinoflagellate cyst records, that a major restructuring of the Southern Ocean plankton ecosystem occurred abruptly and concomitant with the first major Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene (~33.6 million years ago). This turnover marks a regime shift in zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions and community structure, which indicates the appearance of eutrophic and seasonally productive environments on the Antarctic margin. We conclude that earliest Oligocene cooling, ice-sheet expansion, and subsequent sea-ice formation were important drivers of biotic evolution in the Southern Ocean.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Houben, Alexander J P -- Bijl, Peter K -- Pross, Jorg -- Bohaty, Steven M -- Passchier, Sandra -- Stickley, Catherine E -- Rohl, Ursula -- Sugisaki, Saiko -- Tauxe, Lisa -- van de Flierdt, Tina -- Olney, Matthew -- Sangiorgi, Francesca -- Sluijs, Appy -- Escutia, Carlota -- Brinkhuis, Henk -- Expedition 318 Scientists -- Dotti, Carlota Escutia -- Klaus, Adam -- Fehr, Annick -- Williams, Trevor -- Bendle, James A P -- Carr, Stephanie A -- Dunbar, Robert B -- Flores, Jose-Abel -- Gonzalez, Jhon J -- Hayden, Travis G -- Iwai, Masao -- Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J -- Katsuki, Kota -- Kong, Gee Soo -- McKay, Robert M -- Nakai, Mutsumi -- Pekar, Stephen F -- Riesselman, Christina -- Sakai, Toyosaburo -- Salzmann, Ulrich -- Shrivastava, Prakash K -- Tuo, Shouting -- Welsh, Kevin -- Yamane, Masako -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Apr 19;340(6130):341-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1223646.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth Sciences, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands. Alexander.Houben@TNO.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23599491" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptation, Physiological ; Animals ; Antarctic Regions ; Cold Temperature ; Dinoflagellida/*physiology ; *Ecosystem ; Fossils ; *Ice Cover ; *Oceans and Seas ; Phytoplankton/*physiology ; Zooplankton/*physiology
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    Latest Cretaceous climatic and environmental change in the South Atlantic region (2017)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-01
    Description: Latest Maastrichtian climate change caused by Deccan volcanism has been invoked as a cause of mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary (~66.0 Ma). Yet, late Maastrichtian climate and ecological changes are poorly documented, in particular on the Southern Hemisphere. Here we present upper Maastrichtian-lower Danian climate and biotic records from the Bajada del Jagüel (BJ) shelf site (Neuquén Basin, Argentina), employing the TEX 86 paleothermometer, marine palynology (dinoflagellate cysts) and micropaleontology (foraminifera). These records are correlated to the astronomically tuned Ocean Drilling Program Site 1262 (Walvis Ridge). Collectively, we use these records to assess climatic and ecological effects of Deccan volcanism in the Southern Atlantic region. Both the TEX 86 -based sea surface temperature (SST) record at BJ and the bulk carbonate δ 18 O-based SST record of Site 1262 show a latest Maastrichtian warming of ~2.5-4 °C, at 450 to 150 kyr before the K-Pg boundary, coinciding with the a large Deccan outpouring phase. Benthic foraminiferal and dinocyst assemblage changes indicate that this warming resulted in enhanced runoff and stratification of the water column, likely resulting from more humid climate conditions in the Neuquén Basin. These climate conditions could have been caused by an expanding and strengthening thermal low over the South American continent. Biotic changes in response to late Maastrichtian environmental changes are rather limited, when compared to the major turnovers observed at many K-Pg boundary sites worldwide. This suggests that environmental perturbations during the latest Maastrichtian warming event were less severe than those following the K-Pg boundary impact.
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