Communications Earth & Environment (May 2022)

The Eurasian epicontinental sea was an important carbon sink during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum

  • Mustafa Y. Kaya,
  • Guillaume Dupont-Nivet,
  • Joost Frieling,
  • Chiara Fioroni,
  • Alexander Rohrmann,
  • Sevinç Özkan Altıner,
  • Ezgi Vardar,
  • Hakan Tanyaş,
  • Mehmut Mamtimin,
  • Guo Zhaojie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00451-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Eurasian Epicontinental Sea sequestered 720–1300 Gt of organic carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, according to a palaeogeographic reconstruction and multi-proxy data from a sedimentary sequence in the Tarim Basin, China.