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Clumped isotope evidence for Early Jurassic extreme polar warmth and high climate sensitivity
Thomas Letulle
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Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Guillaume Suan
Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Mathieu Daëron
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Mikhail Rogov
Laboratory of Phanerozoic Stratigraphy, Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Christophe Lécuyer
Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Arnauld Vinçon-Laugier
Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Bruno Reynard
Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Gilles Montagnac
Univ Lyon, UCBL, ENSL, UJM, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Oleg Lutikov
Laboratory of Phanerozoic Stratigraphy, Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Jan Schlögl
Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina G, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republik
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Short summary
In this study, we applied geochemical tools to well-preserved ∼180-million-year-old marine mollusc shells from polar and mid-latitude seas. These results indicate that polar shells grew at temperatures of 8–18°C, while mid-latitude shells grew at temperatures of 24–28°C. These results, together with previously published data, raise concerns about the ability of climate models to predict accurate polar temperatures under reasonably high atmospheric CO2 levels.
In this study, we applied geochemical tools to well-preserved ∼180-million-year-old marine...
