Mercury anomalies across the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Jones, Morgan T.; Percival, Lawrence M. E.; Stokke, Ella W.; Frieling, Joost; Mather, Tamsin A.; Riber, Lars; Schubert, Brian A.; Schultz, Bo; Tegner, Christian; Planke, Sverre; Svensen, Henrik H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-217-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-217-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-217-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

Research article

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06 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 06 Feb 2019

Mercury anomalies across the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Morgan T. Jones, Lawrence M. E. Percival, Ella W. Stokke, Joost Frieling, Tamsin A. Mather, Lars Riber, Brian A. Schubert, Bo Schultz, Christian Tegner, Sverre Planke, and Henrik H. Svensen

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RC1: 'PETM Hg/TOC records', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Morgan Jones, 19 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Comment on Mercury anomalies across the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum” by Morgan T. Jones et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Morgan Jones, 19 Jan 2019
EC1: 'editor invitation to post response', Alberto Reyes, 28 Dec 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Jan 2019) by Alberto Reyes

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AR by Morgan Jones on behalf of the Authors (23 Jan 2019)

Short summary

Mercury anomalies in sedimentary rocks are used to assess whether there were periods of elevated volcanism in the geological record. We focus on five sites that cover the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, an extreme global warming event that occurred 55.8 million years ago. We find that sites close to the eruptions from the North Atlantic Igneous Province display significant mercury anomalies across this time interval, suggesting that magmatism played a role in the global warming event.