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Clumped-isotope-derived climate trends leading up to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in northwestern Europe
Heidi E. O'Hora
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Johan Vellekoop
Analytical, Environmental, and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000
Leuven, Belgium
Matthew M. Jones
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 20013, USA
Serena R. Scholz
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Short summary
At the end of the Cretaceous period, massive volcanism in India emitted enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to warm the climate globally above an already warm background state. We reconstruct late Cretaceous seawater temperatures much warmer than today using the chemistry of fossil oysters from the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium. Covariations in temperature and water chemistry indicate changing ocean circulation patterns, potentially related to fluctuating sea level in this region.
At the end of the Cretaceous period, massive volcanism in India emitted enough carbon dioxide...
