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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2631-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2631-2022
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16 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2022

Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous

Ji-Eun Kim, Thomas Westerhold, Laia Alegret, Anna Joy Drury, Ursula Röhl, and Elizabeth M. Griffith

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This study attempts to gain a better understanding of the marine biological carbon pump and ecosystem functioning under warmer-than-today conditions. Our records from marine sediments show the Pacific tropical marine biological carbon pump was driven by variations in seasonal insolation in the tropics during the Late Cretaceous and may play a key role in modulating climate and the carbon cycle globally in the future.