A research team led by Prof. Li Mingsong at Peking University has provided new insights into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal ...

The warm period known as the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a period of climatic turmoil that lasted more than 100,000 years 1.Ocean temperatures increased by 3–10 °C, and ...

The Atlantic Ocean had not fully opened ... But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, it was about to get much warmer still—rapidly, radically warmer. The cause was a massive and ...

Vigorous ocean bottom currents ... In this way, the abrupt climatic event at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary and its newly observed, substantial effects along continental margins could help ...

The Eocene-Oligocene transition marked a significant ... in extensive erosion of continents and sediment deposits on the ocean floor. However, evidence of such deposits was not found.