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Synchronizing early Eocene deep-sea and continental records – cyclostratigraphic age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project drill cores
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Ursula Röhl
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Roy H. Wilkens
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
Philip D. Gingerich
Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan,
48109-1079, USA
William C. Clyde
Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, 56 College
Rd., Durham, NH 03824, USA
Scott L. Wing
Department of Paleobiology, P.O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013 USA
Gabriel J. Bowen
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT 84112, USA
Mary J. Kraus
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder,
UCB 399, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Short summary
Here we present a high-resolution timescale synchronization of continental and marine deposits for one of the most pronounced global warming events, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, which occurred 56 million years ago. New high-resolution age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) drill cores help to improve age models for climate records from deep-sea drill cores and for the first time point to a concurrent major change in marine and terrestrial biota 54.25 million years ago.
Here we present a high-resolution timescale synchronization of continental and marine deposits...
