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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-255-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-255-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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05 Mar 2018
Research article |
| 05 Mar 2018
| 05 Mar 2018
Astronomical tunings of the Oligocene–Miocene transition from Pacific Ocean Site U1334 and implications for the carbon cycle
Helen M. Beddow
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Diederik Liebrand
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
PalaeoClimate.Science, Utrecht (province), the Netherlands
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Douglas S. Wilson
Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Frits J. Hilgen
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Appy Sluijs
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Bridget S. Wade
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, UK
Lucas J. Lourens
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Short summary
We present two astronomy-based timescales for climate records from the Pacific Ocean. These records range from 24 to 22 million years ago, a time period when Earth was warmer than today and the only land ice was located on Antarctica. We use tectonic plate-pair spreading rates to test the two timescales, which shows that the carbonate record yields the best timescale. In turn, this implies that Earth’s climate system and carbon cycle responded slowly to changes in incoming solar radiation.
We present two astronomy-based timescales for climate records from the Pacific Ocean. These...
